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<p>We fell to our knees, high above a gorge, at an under-visited safari lodge beside one of Zimbabwe’s national parks. Our daughter was with her grandparents in Illinois. Our friends from Los Angeles stood there with us, mouths open wide. Bemused, or maybe proud, but surely aware he was the reason we’d come so far, our pal from Harare closed his eyes. The beauty we beheld was incongruous, after everything I’d read, and I was strangely relieved when I learned the river below swarmed with crocodiles. Back in America, it was just barely 2017. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/history-zimbabwe-future-america/#more-3359" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Between the History of Zimbabwe and the Future of America

Redeployment

<h4><a href="nathandeuel.com" target="_blank">Nathan Deuel</a> has contributed to <em>Harper’s</em>, <em>GQ</em>, and <em>The New York Times</em>, among others. His debut collection of essays, <em>Friday Was the Bomb</em>, will be published by Dzanc in May 2014. He lives in Los Angeles.</h4>

Nathan Deuel

The Tender Underbelly of Soldiers: Phil Klay’s Lives During Wartime

Silence Once Begun

A Life in Our Hands: Community, Crime, and Punishment

Half the Kingdom

Ye Who Enter, Abandon Hope: Hell Is a Hospital in Lore Segal's "Half the Kingdom"

Reality Strikes

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Hill William

The Tilted World

<h4>Robert Rea lives in Oxford, Mississippi. He has written pieces on literature and music from the American South for the <i>Southern Literary Journal</i>, <i>Southern Quarterly</i>, and <i>Mississippi Quarterly</i>, among others. He currently teaches courses in American literature at the University of Mississippi.</h4>

Robert Rea

<h4>Max Winter has published reviews in <i>The Boston Globe</i>, <i>The San Francisco Chronicle</i>, <i>Time Out New York</i>, <i>Bookforum</i>, and other publications. His second book of poems, <a href="http://http//www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781930068544/walking-among-them.aspx"><i>Walking Among Them</i></a>, was published by Subpress in 2013. He co-edits the press <a href="http://www.solidobjects.org/">Solid Objects</a>, is the Editor-in Chief of <a href="http://indiewire.com/pressplay">Press Play</a>, and is a Poetry Editor of <a href="http://www.fenceportal.org/">Fence</a>.</h4>

Max Winter

FICTION: NEW &amp; NOTEWORTHY

You Are One of Them

A Former Soviet Union: Elliott Holt's "You Are One of Them"

One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses

Boats Are in Trees and Photocopiers Are on the Beach: Lucy Corin’s “One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses”

Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke

Total Eclipse of the Bar: Nathan Deuel on ‘Turn Around Bright Eyes’

Instructions for a Heatwave

Rising Temperatures: Maggie O'Farrell's "Instructions for a Heatwave"

Life in Beirut

Walden on Wheels

How to Succeed — in a Van, and Otherwise

The Book of My Lives

Finding Words For What Is Horrible: Aleksandar Hemon's "The Book of My Lives"

<a href="nathandeuel.com" target="_blank">Nathan Deuel</a> has contributed to <em>Harper’s</em>, <em>GQ</em>, and <em>The New York Times</em>, among others. His debut collection of essays, <em>Friday Was the Bomb</em>, will be published by Dzanc in May 2014. He lives in Los Angeles.