Fall 2010
The Price of Paperless
Volume 86, Number 4
- Matthew Power on the lithium mines of Bolivia
- Delphine Schrank on an open-pit tin mine in the Congo
- Louie Palu on the hard rock mines of Canada
- J. Malcolm Garcia on the effects of lead mining in Kosovo
- Nathaniel Miller on the Berkeley Pit in Montana
- Fiction by Jennifer Haigh and Samanta Schweblin
- Poetry by Amy Beeder, Patrick Phillips, and Qin Xiaoyu
Fall 2010, The Price of Paperless
Table of Contents
Here Everything is Poison
By J. Malcolm Garcia, Photography by Darren McCollester
Cold winds carry lead-filled dust from a nearby slagheap, a hundred million tonnes of toxic tailings, and scatter it on clothes hanging from laundry lines, on open buckets of drinking water, on the dirt children play in, and on the feral dogs running down alleys in this former French army barracks housing about 250 displaced Roma men, women, and children.
Editor’s Desk
The Price of the Paperless Revolution
By Ted Genoways
Reporting
Jharia Burning
By Allison Joyce, Photography by Allison Joyce
The Pit
By Nathaniel Miller
Father Copper
By Annie Murphy, Photography by Rodrigo Llano
Mother of God, Child of Zeus
By Jessica Benko, Photography by Bear Guerra
Digging Out
By Elliott D. Woods, Photography by Elliott D. Woods
The Solution: Bolivia’s Lithium Dreams
By Matthew Power, Photography by Fabio Cuttica
Tin Fever
By Delphine Schrank, Photography by Mark Craemer
Here Everything is Poison
By J. Malcolm Garcia, Photography by Darren McCollester
Essays
The Devil’s Tail: Reading From the Lives of Authors
By Robert Boyers
Fiction
Favorite Son
By Jennifer Haigh
The Digger
By Samanta Schweblin, Translated by Daniel Alarcon
Poetry
The Man
By Patrick Phillips
Work-Clothes Quilt
By Patrick Phillips
Tailing Dam of Baotou Steel
By Qin Xiaoyu
The Book of Lost Railroad Photographs
By Amy Beeder
Criticism
The Age of Inequality
By Oscar Villalon
The Activist Novelist
By Jacob Silverman
The Triumph of Capitalism
By Brian Sholis
Multimedia
The Underground Giant: Life in the Hard Rock Mines of Quebec and Ontario
By Louie Palu, Photography by Louie Palu