Table of Contents

• Editor's Note, November 2012
  by Daniel Simon
• The Life and Times of Perry Mason: The Evolution of Today’s Legal Thrillers

Law and Literature

• INTRO
  “Going Mad by Grains” Reflections on Law and Literature
  by Deji Olukotun
• FICTION
  Lizards’ Colony
  by Mahmoud Saeed
• FICTION “Anyone Have Any Idea What Jesus Wrote Here?,” Sophie Hardach
• FICTION “Immoral Acts,”
 Juan Pablo Villalobos
• FICTION WEB EXCLUSIVE
  The Prisoners of the Past
  by Deena Padayachee
• READING LIST
  Outstanding Works of Law and Literature You Won’t Find on Every Other List
  by Michelle Johnson
• ESSAY “Through Me Many Long Dumb Voices: The Poet-Lawyer,” Martín Espada
• POETRY “Thieves of Light,” Martín Espada
• POETRY “Offerings to an Ulcerated God,” Martín Espada
• POETRY “Self-Questions for Possible Suspects under Section 2(B) of Arizona SB 1070,” Francisco X. Alarcón

Essays

• Of Prisons and Freedom: Liberation in the Work of Assia Djebar
  by Phyllis Taoua

Interviews

• A Brief Conversation with Johan Unenge
• “Writing a Letter, Changing the Law: A Conversation with Marion Bloem,” Michelle Johnson

Poetry

• WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Three Poems by Kiki Dimoula
  by Kiki Dimoula
• Two Poems, Aaron Fagan
• Three Poems, Bijan Jalali
• “Single Last Sale: A Parallel Poem,” Changming Yuan
• “More Than the Edge,” Lilah Clay

Fiction

• WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Oppenheimer Beach
  by Tom Paine
• “Birth,” Sandra Jensen

In Every Issue

• What to Read Now: Dystopian Novels
  by Moira Crone
• City Profile: Rich Ideas and Reconciliation in Galle, Sri Lanka
• Outpost: A Border-Crossing Library in Derby, Vermont, and Stanstead, Quebec