This is a decent issue. Lydia Millet's "Snow White, Rose Red;" Steven Millhauser's "Tales of Darkness And The Unknown Vol. XIV: The White Glove;" and Fred G. Leebron's "Out Cold" are my favorite short stories this time around. Reif Larsen's "It will Happen Again: Report on Kirkensferda Fire, Sarajevo, 1995" is bizarre.

Alyson Sinclair's "The Invention of the South" and "I Dreamed The Clouds Went By The Moon Like Dead Fish" were memorable poems in this issue.

The interview with Israeli author Etgar Keret is perplexing. He refers to U.S. Republicans as rednecks and "crazy radical Christians," but states that Israel is "very liberal and very fascist at the same time." Perhaps I'm reading into it, but it seemed that he thought that was a good thing. He thinks Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize has racists undertones. He also stated that his writing was like a "biblical holiness" to him. Crazy radical Christians?

Reality Hunger author David Shields is also interviewed. An excerpt from Per Petterson's I Curse The River of Time is featured, but I didn't read it because the book is sitting on my shelf. I didn't want to ruin the experience of the novel as a whole. ( )