Redeployment / Phil Klay --
A tale of two martyrs / Tahar Ben Jelloun --
Crossbones / Nuruddin Farah --
Stones and artichokes / Nicole Krauss --
Poem / Lawrence Joseph --
Punnu's jihad / Nadeem Aslam --
A handful of walnuts / Ahmed Errachidi, with an introduction by Clive Stafford Smith --
The third mate / Adam Johnson --
In a land of silence / Janine di Giovanni --
Flee / Nadia Shira Cohen --
The terminal check / Pico Iyer --
Veterans of a foreign war / Elliott Woods --
Jihad redux / Declan Walsh --
Laika I / Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer --
The American age, Iraq / Anthony Shadid.