Table of Contents

• Editor's Note, September 2012

Very Short Fiction

• ESSAY: "The Remarkable Reinvention of Very Short Fiction," Robert Shapard
• INTERVIEW: The Very Short Q&A on Very Short Fiction
• WEB EXCLUSIVE "Dedications," Luis Jorge Boone
• "The Vision," Carmen Boullosa
• “History Will Not Be Made on This Couch,” 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," Lili Potpara
• "Two Stories," Clemens Setz
• “Continuity of Hell,” 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
• WEB EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: Ö Börukku (Nostalgia), Recaredo Silebo Boturu

INTERVIEWS

• WEB EXCLUSIVE "The Uncertain Territory of Memory: A Conversation with Chilean Writer Roberto Brodsky," Lisa DiGiovanni and Pedro García-Caro
• A Brief Conversation with Caroline Adderson
• WEB EXCLUSIVE “A Rustle in History: Conversations with Boualem Sansal," 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," 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, Daniel Simon
• What to Read Now: Mixed-Genre Literature, Giannina Braschi
• City Profile: Cartagena, Colombia’s “Woodstock of the Mind”
• New Books: Childhood
• Outposts: Citlaltépetl Refuge House, Mexico City