Our laurels went unrested on for this one: Issue 34 features new stories
of shipwrecks and kidnappings and bad vacations by (among others)
Anthony Doerr, Daniel Handler, and T. C. Boyle, new letters about wine
and Hawaii from John Hodgman and Sarah Vowell, twenty-one dead-on
self-portraits drawn by the likes of Michael Martone, Michel Gondry, and
Sarah Silverman, and, beyond all this, in a standalone volume, Nick
McDonell's stunning exploration of the latest iteration of the war in
Iraq?a ground-level account from within the 1st Cavalry Division. The
whole thing weighs in at just under 400 pages, and comes in its own
custom-made double-sleeve. It is, without a doubt, a beaut.