This issue:

LITTLE DROPS OF WATER: A STORY BY KURT VONNEGUT
LET THEM EAT CASH: Can Bill Gates Turn Hunger into Profit? - By Frederick Kaufman
MY GREAT DEPRESSION: Ten Dispatches from the Near Future - Kevin Baker, Thomas de Zengotita, Ruben Bolling, Jamaica Kincaid, Colson Whitehead, Simon Critchley and Tom McCarthy, David Rees, Sherman Alexie, Ben Marcus, Ben Katchor

REUPLOAD NEEDED

Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds oppressive and dispiriting, it is. McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war.