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Vol. 47 Issue 2
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Melissa Buzzeo’s THE DEVASTATION
By Thom Donovan I have been trying to write this review for longer than I wish to admit. For many days this past summer, I would…
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From the Workshop to War: An Interview with Janine di Giovanni
By Christopher Merrill When I was reporting on the war in Bosnia, I always read the dispatches of John Burns, Roger Cohen, and Janine di…
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Personal Matters
By Jennifer Alise Drew In my early twenties, after the magazine I was working for threw its last party, I managed to string together a handful…
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The Blaze-Orange Freak Tag
By Sean Higgins Yes, he’s fat. Wide as a beef steer. The kind of fat that befuddles wheelchaired old ladies at Walmart, catches puzzled stares…
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The Designee
By T. C. Boyle The following appears in Issue 2 of, The Iowa Review Volume 47. T.C. Boyle has published fourteen novels and ten collections of short…
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Dinner in Los Angeles, Raining in July
By Max Ritvo The black night is a sea urchin. The sea urchin is my mother moving on spiny feet, meat clotting with her desires.…
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Silencer on the Arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. after Sassing an Officer Who Assumed He’d Unlawfully Entered His Own Home
By Marcus Wicker So first you saw this: Pitch, gumming a two party wagon wheel—mule. Before the cart before the cartwheeling wheel. After, mule suspended…
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Unspoken, at Breakfast
By Anna Jackson I dreamed last night that you were not you but much younger, as young as our daughter tuning out your instructions, her…