Table of Contents

• Editor's Note, September 2012
  by Daniel Simon

Very Short Fiction

• ESSAY
  The Remarkable Reinvention of Very Short Fiction
  by Robert Shapard
• INTERVIEW
  The Very Short Q&A on Very Short Fiction
• WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Dedications
  by Luis Jorge Boone
• "The Vision," Carmen Boullosa
• History Will Not Be Made on This Couch
  by Hisham Bustani
• Two Stories, Alex Epstein
• "Skellig," Vanessa Gebbie
• "We See Our Mother Go to Bed," Josefine Klougart
• "Baku," Sylvia Petter
• "Truth," Nora Nadjarian
• "Continuity of Hell," Andrés Neuman
• The Surprise
  by Lili Potpara
• "Two Stories," Clemens Setz
• Continuity of Hell
  by Andrés Neuman

Equatorial Guinean Literature

• ESSAY "The Struggle Against State-Promoted Amnesia," Elisa Rizo
• POETRY Five Poems, Marcelo Ensema Nsang
• POETRY Three Poems, Raquel Ilonbé
• POETRY “Intimate History of Humanity” by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, tr. David Shook
• INTERVIEW "A Conversation with Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel," Elisa Rizo & David Shook
• EXCERPT WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Excerpts from Ö Börukku (Nostalgia)
  by Recaredo Silebo Boturu

Interviews

• WEB EXCLUSIVE
  The Uncertain Territory of MemoryA Conversation with Chilean Writer Roberto Brodsky
  by Lisa DiGiovanni, Pedro García-Caro
• A Brief Conversation with Caroline Adderson
• WEB EXCLUSIVE
  “A Rustle in History”Conversations with Boualem Sansal
  by Dinah Assouline Stillman

Fiction

• "Waiting," Bewketu Seyoum

Essays

• “I Went to Jerusalem, and Returned Delighted and Enriched,” Boualem Sansal
• Wheels of Fire: Writers on Bicycles
  by Alon Raab

Poetry

• Two Poems, Håkan Sandell
• Two Poems, Bewketu Seyoum
• "Ode to Bicycles," Pablo Neruda

In Every Issue

• Editor's Pick: The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine
  by Daniel Simon
• What to Read Now: Mixed-Genre Literature
  by Giannina Braschi
• City Profile: Cartagena, Colombia’s “Woodstock of the Mind”
• New Books: Childhood
• Outposts: Citlaltépetl Refuge House, Mexico City