April 2005

Dispatches

Al Rashad

by Rita Leistner

Religion

‘Til Decree Do Us Part

by Joan Bryden

Detail

Superior Fox

by Karen Knorr

I have been using animals in my photographs since 1979. It started with a photograph that included two dogs that…[more]

Field Notes

Another Hypnotic Prairie Night

by Patricia Robertson

WAKAW—It has been a dull, dark winter in the small palindrome-town of Wakaw where I’ve recently put down roots. My partner Grant and I…[more]

Fiction

Wireless

by Lynn Coady

Jane salutes you from an age where to be an aficionado is to find yourself foolishly situated in the world. Where to…[more]

Sporting Life

Marathon Man

by Lawrence Hill

At age 74, Ed Whitlock is one of the fastest men on earth …[more]

Music

The Lion in Winter

by Banning Eyre

Zimbabwe’s greatest living musician in a minor key…[more]

Books

Cities in a Raw Young Century

by Randy Boyagoda

Bombay, Tehran, and Prague, in all their madness and excess, refuse to conform to Western notions of the modern city…[more]

Field Notes

Wall-to-wall Politics

by David Sax

Buenos aires—Late last year, with Argentina’s economy continuing its rebound and the country’s…[more]

Field Notes

The Real Easy

by Brent Preston

NEW ORLEANS—The city of New Orleans’ official tourism website has some stern advice for would-be visitors to its most famous…[more]

Field Notes

Medical Mystery

by Larry Krotz

Nairobi—Jane Kamene, one of the nurses, took me into a back room and hauled out a large black book with red…[more]

Imaginings

POETSMART™

by Susan Holbrook

Just like people, poets can develop unhealthy, adverse, and sometimes dangerous habits. Poets are cute but, let’s…[more]

Nature

Danger Signs

by Larry Frolick

Was the sea trying to warn them a killer wave was on the way?…[more]

Sightings

Peace and Order vs. Glorious and Free

by Ken Alexander

As we moved from T-shirts to down parkas and back to T-shirts again during this winter of climate change—one day…[more]