Matthew Power on the lithium mines of Bolivia
Delphine Schrank on an open-pit tin mine in the Congo
Louie Palu on the hard rock mines of Canada
J. Malcolm Garcia on the effects of lead mining in Kosovo
Nathaniel Miller on the Berkeley Pit in Montana
Fiction by Jennifer Haigh and Samanta Schweblin
Poetry by Amy Beeder, Patrick Phillips, and Qin Xiaoyu
Jennifer Haigh’s novel Mrs. Kimble (William Morrow, 2003) won the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction. Her second novel, Baker Towers, was published by Morrow in 2005.