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The Race for Second Place

The Republican primaries as farce

Channeled Rage

From tweets posted by the Iowa senator Chuck Grassley since February 2012. Just turned to History Channel. No history. I used to get history. Why do we have such a…

Iowa City, Iowa

by Marilynne Robinson,

Like the country as a whole, Iowa has a Republican chief executive and a Republican-controlled legislature that creates problems where they need not exist, problems that look like the effects…

The Trouble with Iowa

by Richard Manning,

Corn, corruption, and the presidential caucuses

Rebellion in The Corn Belt

by Mary Heaton Vorse,

The picketing had not been stopped when we arrived in Sioux City. We had come through Indiana and Illinois into Iowa. In two days we had not passed through wild…

Cattle Calls

by Ted Conover,

The vanishing breed of the country vet

Ecce Homo

by Kerry Howley,

By Kerry Howley, from Thrown, an account of the world of mixed martial arts narrated by a semi-fictionalized graduate student, out next month from Sarabande.

Dostoevsky’s Wagers

by Amie Barrodale,

Gambling for car parts in Osceola, Iowa

From documents submitted by Sue Grant, an expert witness, in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Henry’s Turkey Service, the operator of a turkey-processing plant…

Iowa

The Race for Second Place

Channeled Rage

Iowa City, Iowa

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The Trouble with Iowa

Rebellion in The Corn Belt

Cattle Calls

Ecce Homo

Untitled

Dostoevsky’s Wagers

Henry’s Farm

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The Race for Second Place

Channeled Rage

Iowa City, Iowa

[Untitled]

The Trouble with Iowa

Rebellion in The Corn Belt

Cattle Calls

Ecce Homo

Untitled

Dostoevsky’s Wagers

Henry’s Farm

September 2013

Debug