Fiction: "Nothing Right," by Antonya Nelson "The Elephant," by Rick Bass "A Different Road," by Elizabeth Strout "Moni Wayside Blue," by Ann Beattie "We Just Came up from San Francisco," by Daniel Menasche
Poetry: "X." "Meadia," and Redshift" by Bruce Smith "Oppenheimer on the Couch, Oppenheimer Finds a Lover, or Afternoon at the Shore," by Cynthia Lowen "A Tendency toward Mysticism and after Reading this Poem," by Brett Flectcher Lauer "Twelth Wedding Anniversay and One Poem for Matthew Z," by Noelle Kocot "four ways of removing a wall (a field manual)," by Anthony Alessandrini
Interviews: "An Interview with John Banville," "A conversation with Claribel Alegria" "An interview with Nuruddin Farah"
Essays: "Two views of Ryszard Kapuschinski," by Steve Almond and Binyavanga Wainaina "My Father, The Garbage Head," by Helen Schulman "Among the Klingons," by Arika Okrent
Michael Kobre on Harvey Kurtzman's war comics Irina Reyn on Anastasya Verbitskaya's keys to Happiness Confessions of a secret game eater by Leigh Newman
Win McCormack is an American publisher and editor from Oregon.
He is editor-in-chief of Tin House magazine and Tin House Books, the former publisher of Oregon Magazine, and founder and treasurer of MediAmerica, Inc. He serves on the board of directors of the journal New Perspectives Quarterly. His political and social writings have appeared in Oregon Humanities, Tin House, The Nation, The Oregonian, and Oregon Magazine. McCormack's investigative coverage of the Rajneeshee movement was awarded a William Allen White Commendation from the University of Kansas and the City and Regional Magazine Association. His latest book, You Don’t Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values, examines the sex scandals of Republican politicians who espouse "moral values."
As a political activist, McCormack served as Chair of the Oregon Steering Committee for Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign. He is chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon's President's Council and a member of the Obama for President Oregon Finance Committee. McCormack was also chosen as Alternate Delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention. He currently serves on the Oregon Council for the Humanities and the Oregon Tourism Commission. Additionally, McCormack sits on the Board of Overseers for Emerson College, and is a co-founder of the Los Angeles-based Liberty Hill Foundation