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Issue 9 Table of Contents
Cairo 2010: After Kefaya
by Brian T. Edwards
The Focus Portfolio in APS 9 introduces the next generation of Egyptian writers.
You are stuck in traffic in downtown Cairo. Zahma—a blockage. The cars are packed in impossibly thick and there is only the slightest of forward movement. Pedestrians squeeze their way through hairline fractures between the metal, which adds to the congestion. A ride that could have taken fifteen minutes takes two hours. Time loses its sense of forward momentum; one becomes philosophical. This is a common occurrence.
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Jim Shepard
Toma’z Salamun
James Wallenstein
Julian Gough
Joseph Massey
Timothy Donnelly
Zoe Ferraris
Zach Savich
George Simenon
Ed Roberson
Yiyun Li
Marilynne Robinson
Tom Grimes
Mary-Beth Hughes
Kevin Young
Jillian Weise
Dorothea Lasky
David Mitchell
Craig Teicher
Anne Carson
Daniel Alarcon
Suzanne Buffam
Yoko Ogawa
Keith Lee Morris
Derek Walcott
Ander Monson
Maile Chapman
David Shields
Leslie Jamison
Adam Talib, trans.
T. C. Boyle
John Ashbery
Ernst Weiss
Matthea Harvey
Petina Gappah
Mieko Kanai
Sam Stephenson
Benjamin Anastas
William T. Vollmann
Roberto Bolaño
Rebecca Wolff
James Lasdun
Tomaz Salamun
April Bernard
Laurie Sheck
Eliot Weinberger
Jim Linderman and Luc Sante
Austin Ratner
Dubravka Ugresic
Ben George, ed.
Rob Spillman, ed.
Santiago Roncagliolo
G. C. Waldrep
Arda Collins
John Wray
Yoko Ogawa
Fanny Howe
Anne Carson
Wells Tower
Yiyun Li
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