Summer 2013

Garret Keizer on loving his father-in-law Tess Taylor on being a Jefferson descendant Benjamin Rachlin on an iconoclastic beekeeper Audrey Niffenegger on becoming an artist Fiction by Ann Beattie, Brendan Mathews, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tyler Stiem Poetry by Sandra Beasley, Dexter L. Booth, Kevin Hart, Hailey Leithauser, and Tess Taylor
Summer 2013

Volume 89, Number 3

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Table of contents

Reporting 
REPORTING / ISSUE: Summer 2013

It’s All About the Cow

By Catherine E. McKinley ,  Photography by Thabiso Sekgala
REPORTING / ISSUE: Summer 2013

First the Fence, Then the System

By Lauren Markham ,  Photography by Scott Dalton
Essays 
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Summer 2013

Three Vignettes From Berlin

By Aleš Šteger ,  Translated by Brian Henry
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Summer 2013

Awake in the Dream World

By Audrey Niffenegger
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Summer 2013

The Accidental Beekeeper

By Benjamin Rachlin ,  Photography by Peter Frank Edwards
Memoir 
MEMOIR / ISSUE: Summer 2013

Remembering the Randolphs

By Tess Taylor
MEMOIR / ISSUE: Summer 2013

Walt

By Garret Keizer
Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Summer 2013

Like a Novel: The Marketing of Literary Nonfiction

By Jeff Sharlet
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Summer 2013

The Suffering of Others: On Adrienne Rich

By Cynthia Haven
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Summer 2013

Camp People: Meg Wolitzer’s Interestings

By Hannah Goldfield
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Summer 2013

Faithful Grieving: On Christian Wiman

By William Giraldi
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Summer 2013

Digging Up the Truth About Bram Stoker

By Colin Fleming
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Summer 2013

Discovering Gold in the Back of Beyond: The Fiction of Ron Rash

By Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Summer 2013

Art for App’s Sake

By Mark Athitakis
Photography 
PHOTOGRAPHY / ISSUE: Summer 2013

Summer on the Island

Photography by Benjamin Rasmussen
Fiction 
FICTION / ISSUE: Summer 2013

The Debt

By Ann Beattie
FICTION / ISSUE: Summer 2013

For Every Man a Wife

By Tyler Stiem
FICTION / ISSUE: Summer 2013

The Jesters

By Joyce Carol Oates
FICTION / ISSUE: Summer 2013

This Is Not a Love Song

By Brendan Mathews
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2013

Virginia Pars

By Tess Taylor
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2013

From the Grandiloquent Dictionary

By Hailey Leithauser
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2013

Apart

By Kevin Hart
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2013

Queen Elizabeth

By Dexter L. Booth
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2013

The Circus

By Sandra Beasley
Editor's Desk 
EDITOR'S DESK / ISSUE: Summer 2013

People & Place

By Jon Parrish Peede

Contributor Profiles

Lauren Markham

Lauren Markham is the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life (Crown, 2017).
Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer who has published six books, including the novels The Time Traveler’s Wife (2004) and Her Fearful Symmetry (2009).

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