fiction by Brenda K. Marshall
The winter of 1881 found Frances Bingham reluctantly arranging for her move from the spacious comfort of her father-in-law’s bonanza farm on the Dakota prairie to her almost completed new home six miles away in Fargo. The arrangement that had suited both Percy and Frances since she had joined him in Dakota three years earlier—in which Percy insisted that he would soon leave his job as a newspaperman for the Fargo Argus to make a new start back east, and Frances, in turn, reasoned that it made no sense for her and their son, Houghton, to move to Percy’s two rooms above the Argus in the meantime—had come to an end with Percy’s newfound respectability as Fargo’s delegate to the upcoming Fifteenth General Assembly of Dakota Territory. A man with a promising political career, Percy now insisted, must have his own home in Fargo, and his wife must live in that home with him, and not with his sister and father-in-law nearby.
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Chris Thornton and Juan Cole on Iran today (with a portfolio of photographs) … Jennifer Robertson on historical forgetting and contemporary Japanese art … Philip Beidler on Vonnegut’s Dresden … Anis Shivani on the new poetry of lament … Stories by David Huddle, Nancy Reisman, Sharon Pomerantz … Poems by Albert Goldbarth, Sam Taylor, and Beckian Fritz Goldberg …
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photoessay by Christopher Thornton
(with an introduction by Jonathan Freedman and commentary by Juan Cole)
Late last summer, longtime MQR contributor Chris Thornton sent us his “Letter from Tehran” detailing his experiences during the demonstrations that followed Iran’s stolen election, and along with it, photographs documenting all aspects of Iranian life. Both offered vivid accounts of a society whose visible contradictions—just then exploding into violence—were being played out in public and private alike. We are happy to print his piece and a selection from the photographs he sent us. And to gloss the issues involved, we called upon Michigan professor Juan Cole, one of the leading scholars of the Mideast and the Islamic world and the author of an indispensable blog, to write a commentary on some of the most striking photographs. We’re grateful to be able to print his commentary at the end of our selection from Thornton’s ensemble of images.
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This issue contains writings about the territory of China–its people, its ways of thinking, its arts and media, its politics and social conditions. It also examines the presence of China in the imagination and behaviors of the Chinese diaspora, especially in the U.S. Edited by Laurence Goldstein.
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Together with Part 1 (Fall 2005), this special issue offers detailed insight into the documentary imagination. Edited by Tom Fricke and Keith Taylor. This issue features: Kelly M. Askew on filming East African musical performers; Ruth Behar on a visit to the first World Summit Reunion of Behars in Bejar, Spain; an interview with Robert Coles by Tom Fricke about Coles’s life and lifework in the documentary field; Tom Fricke on the friendship of an anthropologist (himself) and a native informant in Nepal; and much more.
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