We’re delighted to let you know that Issue 11 (Dual Power) has just arrived at our printer in Sheridan, Pennsylvania, and we think it’s one of our best yet.
The issue features debut fiction by an astoundingly good young writer, Yelena Akhtiorskaya, and Emily Witt’s investigation into the cult of Cambridge poet J. H. Prynne, the best piece on academic life we’ve published since Elif Batuman’s “Babel in California.”
We’re also proud to feature Kent Russell’s powerful essay on two brothers, one of whom went to war in Afghanistan, Gemma Sieff on the torturer Charles Graner and the fashion photographer Terry Richardson, and a politics section on the upheavals from Cairo to Madison, with Ken Kalfus’s notes on Egypt on the eve of revolution, Megan K. Stack’s reflections on the Arab street, and Eli S. Evans’s report on the resurgence of the Wisconsin progressive tradition.
The Intellectual Situation considers two types of information overload: the “Information Essay” and iPod excess, and we continue our translation and documents series with a memoir of working with Bourdieu on a “fanzine for sociology.”
All this and more in one issue, and there’s much more to come in just four months on our new accelerated schedule. We hope you’ll subscribe (or renew, or buy a subscription for a friend) now to receive Issue 11 by April 1 and keep up with us for the rest of the year. For international readers, domestic readers with irregular mail service, people with iPads, and hypothetically anyone else, we’re now offering a digital subscription. But we still think nothing compares to print!
A Preview of Issue 11
