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Photograph / ALICE ATTIE

“When Grace goes looking for the Traverses’ summer house, in the Ottawa Valley, it has been many years since she was in that part of the country.”
by Alice Munro

Inside the Biennial.
by Peter Schjeldahl

Past Q. & A.s, Cover Galleries, Web Sightings, and more.

A list of readings and other magazine-related happenings.



Visiting with the poet Jane Mayhall.
by Dana Goodyear

In this week's issue, Kathy Gannon reports on the aftermath of the war against the Taliban. Here she talks to Raffi Khatchadourian about reconstruction, warlord rule, and the booming drug business in Afghanistan.
PLUS: Kathy Gannon’s Letter from Afghanistan.

Inside the Stewart trial.
by Jeffrey Toobin
PLUS: Joan Didion on Martha Stewart's empire, in a piece from 2000 (see From the Archive).
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