AQR Vol. 30, No. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2013

About the Cover

Autumn’s first freeze, Anchorage, Alaska.
© 2013 Clark James Mishler

Table of Contents

Special Feature

Afghan Americans: Diptychs
Introduction to “Afghan Americans: Diptychs”, Andrea Bruce
Photo Essay, Andrea Bruce

Fiction

A Ride Out of Phrao, Dina Nayeri
The Cause of Everything, Nicholas S. Lepre
Pursuit, Justin Kramon
Jeremy Rabinowitz is Available, Carol Edelstein
Across the Channel, T. Sean Steele
In the Snake’s Mouth, J.F. Glubka
She Can Paint Too, Jody Azzouni
Bricks, Carol K. Howell
Protection, Castle Freeman Jr.
The Long Road Turns to Joy, Robin MacArthur

Nonfiction

The Missing Sister, Julie Marie Wade
Peach Pie on Badstreet, Matthew Gavin Frank
Work, Paul Crenshaw
A Man of Fashion, Mary Kudenov
Confetti, Corinna Cook

Poetry

He Watches the Weather Channel, Carrie Shipers
At the Sadness Factory, Carrie Shipers
Love Poem for the Radium Girls, Eric Weinstein
Runaway Green Tea Effect, Eric Weinstein
Nouvelle Vague, Kathleen Winter
The Garden Party, Kathleen Winter
The River, Elizabeth Barnett
The Horses Didn’t Die, Elizabeth Barnett
The Blind Madonnas, Sylvia Foley
Attributed to Qu Ding, Mark Sullivan
Space Bears and Doxology, Charlotte Pence
Wanted: A Pretty Picture, Charlotte Pence
Assumption, John Lundberg
At the Loom, James Doyle
Totem, Jeanne Emmons
Credo, Kathryn Hunt
Epithalamium, Kara van de Graaf
Foster Child, William Notter
Paddlewheeler to Sugarloaf Mountain, Andrew H. Oerke
Marx’s Family, Garret Keizer
Against the Wind, Elisabeth Murawski
The First Snowfall in the Al Anbar Province Since 1991, Kyle Adamson
How We Give Ourselves, Gary H. Holthaus
A Tree Full of Cherries for the First Time, Anne Love Woodhull
Big Leaf Maple, Elizabeth Myhr
So Many, Donald Platt
Dinner Party, Julia Lisella
Movie Drunks, Maxine Scates
Long Distance, Ciara Shuttleworth
LHOOQ, Lauren Hilger
Reveille with Fire Alarms, George David Clark
The Precious Book, Patricia Fargnoli
First Day at Indiana State Teacher’s College, 1926, Jill Kress Karn
Free Will with Small Yellow Truck, Marylen Grigas
Playing Bach’s 3-Part Invention #9, Jean Janzen
Sedna the Arctic Sea Goddess, Hila Ratzabi
Revelations of the Parietal, Angie Macri
Music at My Mother’s Funeral, Faith Shearin
Things We’re All Too Young to Know, Faith Shearin
My Weight On Other Planets, Faith Shearin
Galaxias Kyklos, Sarah M. Brownsberger
Cesarean Section, Sarah M. Brownsberger
Deliquescence: A Meditation in Seven Parts, Elizabeth Bradfield