January/February 2011
Features
Feature
The Adventures of Peavine and Charlie
by Michael P. Branch
How a couple of mischievous jack rabbits imbued two little girls with a sense of place and rescued their father from tedium. Also available: audio of the author reading this article. Link at top of article.
Feature
The Colonization of Kern County
by Jeremy Miller
All the oil companies in California's Central Valley do is take, take, take -- and not just oil.
Feature
Burial & Flight
Photographs and text by Jake Price
As rural communities worldwide contract, something essential is going missing from our collective experience. Accompanied by a slide show containing extra images.
Feature
Track Back
by Janisse Ray
Frequent fliers of the world take note: redemption aplenty awaits those who ride the rails.
Feature
The Southside Raza Image Federation Corps of Discovery
by Luis Alberto Urrea
For two homeboys lighting out, the barrio has its quota of wonders and hazards.
Available now: Audio of the author reading this story.
Feature
Hope and Feathers
by J. Drew Lanham
A birding expedition to South Africa challenges a birder's own identity.
Columns
Each Other—Where We Are
Fracking Democracy
by Sandra Steingraber
In which you get 120 seconds to say why shale gas should be left in the ground.
Outside In
Let Them Drink Coke
by Jay Griffiths
In the Kalahari, Bushmen are dying of dehydration so that tourist turds can be flushed.
Upping the Stakes
The Tyranny of Entitlement
by Derrick Jensen
Having a perpetual growth economy is not only insane, it is impossible.
Departments
The Place Where You Live
The Place Where You Live
In this department of the magazine, we offer a space for people to exercise their sixth sense and tell us about their place, their connection to it, its history and future and imaginary life, in words and pictures. It's an ongoing web feature as well. In this issue: Cathy Hall Stengel on Corning, New York; Robin MacArthur on Marlboro, Vermont; Ben Johnson on Kelly, Wyoming; Emily Brisse on Deep Lake, Minnesota; and Collin Williams on Montevallo, Alabama.
Media & The Arts
Sublime Interventions
by William L. Fox
Notes on the place where what we call the art world meets what we call the natural world.
Coda
Digging Out
by John H. Maret
The profound quiet after a blizzard.
Reviews
Atlantic, by Simon Winchester
Finders Keepers, by Craig Childs
Beyond Katrina, by Natasha Trethewey
River House, by Sarahlee Lawrence
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Climate Refugees, by Collectif Argos
Poetry
Driving to Doug and Hilary's Cabin in Northern Wisconsin, by Katrina Vandenberg
Chancellor of Shadows, by Lance Larsen
Dona Nobis Pacem, by Todd Davis
Miracle Removal, by Kevin Young
Kottayam Morning, by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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