"A Mariner original."

Reprinted from various periodicals.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [322]-328)

Goodbye, my Brother / Elliot Ackerman -- Hope and home / Rabih Alameddine -- Peak America / Sam Anderson -- Why should a melon cost as much as a car? / Bianca Bosker -- Ghost of Capablanca / Brin-Jonathan Butler -- My mother and I went halfway around the world to find each other / Jennifer Hope Choi -- Signs and wonders / J. D. Daniels -- Traveling while black / Camille Dungy -- Foxes of Prince Edward Island / Matthew Ferrence -- What ever happened to the Russian Revolution? / Ian Frazier -- We go it alone / Rahawa Haile -- Digital republic / Nathan Heller -- Some kind of calling / Pam Houston -- Let the devil sing / Allegra Hyde -- Out of sight / Ryan Knighton -- Over the river / Richard Manning -- Outside the Manson Pinkberry / Rachel Monroe -- Righteous gentile / Eileen Pollack -- Looking for right and wrong in the Philippines / Albert Samaha -- Thinking outside the bots / Gary Shteyngart -- In the home of the bear / Christopher Solomon -- Notes from a last man / Barrett Swanson -- Counter revolution / Anya von Bremzen -- Vacances / John von Sothen.