Summer 2009

• Tom Bissell looks for Judas in Hakeldama • Peter Lagerquist visits Tel Avivi’s Latrun fortress • Christopher Merrill finds himself at gunpoint in Lebanon • Adam Kirsch on Lionel Trilling and Allen Ginsberg • Asim Rafiqui provides portraits of Gazans • Chris Ware has the fifth installment of “Jordan W. Lint” • Poetry from Carl Phillips, Mahmoud Darwish, and Tom Sleigh  
Summer 2009

Volume 85, Number 3

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Table of contents

Essays 
Criticism 
Photography 
Poetry 
 

Contributor Profiles

Chris Ware lives in Oak Park, Illinois, and is the author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. He is currently serializing two new graphic novels in his ongoing periodical The ACME Novelty Library, the nineteenth issue of which appeared in November 2008.

Carl Phillips is the author of sixteen books of poetry, including Scattered Snows, to the North (FSG, 2024) and Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (FSG, 2022), which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Phillips has also received the Academy of American Poets Prize, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2021 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, and a Pushcart Prize. His other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

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