THE CLEAN ROOM / DOMESTICATING THE HIROSHIMA MAIDENS
David Serlin
Plastic surgery after the atomic bomb
COLORS / PINK
David Byrne
Not so sweet after all
LEFTOVERS / EXPLORING CUBA’S SUGAR BOWL
Rachel Kushner
The colonial legacy of United Fruit
INGESTION / AUTHENTICITY, OR, THE PARADOXES OF CUISINE
Allen S. Weiss
Unpacking a stuffed cabbage
Main
IN THE LAND OF THE NON-BUDDHAS
Edoardo Albinati
A story of disappearance in the Afghani mountains
ARTIST PROJECT / STRIP MINING
Emilie Clark, Michael Ross, and Julianne Swartz
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING LAZY
Marina van Zuylen
Paul Lafargue’s indecent proposal
SKIN
Shelley Jackson
Author announces mortal work of art
ARTIST PROJECT / STAMPOGRAPHIC PANORAMA
Jonathan Herder
HUMAN RIGHTS IN A CHOCOLATE EGG
Slavoj Žižek
Welcome to the dessert of the real
POOR LIKE ME
Eric Schocket
The persistence of class ventriloquism
Flight
A WING AND A PRAYER
Tom Vanderbilt
Pigeons and the history of battlefield communication
THESE WINGS WERE MADE FOR RUNNING: AN INTERVIEW WITH KENNETH DIAL
Jay Worthington and Kenneth Dial
Flight as a case study in the evolution of complex anatomical structures
THROUGH THE VASTE SPACES OF THE AIRE: AN INTERVIEW WITH CLIVE HART
Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi, and Clive Hart
The prehistory of heavier-than-air flight
A DIRECTORY OF HEAVIER-THAN-AIR FLYING MACHINES IN WESTERN EUROPE, 850 BC–AD 1783
Compiled by Clive Hart
THINGS THAT CANNOT BE
Ronald Jones
The paradox of the upward fall
FOR YOUR REFUSES
Airsickness bags from around the world
THE UNFRIENDLY SKIES
Jay Worthington
Balloons and the origins of military aviation
ARTIST PROJECT / UNTITLED
Roger Andersson
BOMBS AWAY: AN INTERVIEW WITH SVEN LINDQVIST
Mats Bigert and Sven Lindqvist
The history of civilian bombardment
LOOKING DOWN
Albert Mobilio
The God’s-eye view of the aerial photograph
JEALOUSY: MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND FLIGHT
Eric Bunge
The airplane and the modern conscience of urbanism
THE MILE HIGH CLUB
David Serlin
Dummies go down
SPECIAL CD INSERT / LIFT
BDF, Yuri Gagarin, rx:tx, Voice of the Liberation of Iraq, Marina Rosenfeld, Henning Christiansen, Christina Kubisch, Gordon Monohan, and Aiba
Curated by Brian Conley and Christoph Cox
ARTIST PROJECT / FLIGHT PATHS
Hans Wilschut
INFLATIONARY MODELS
Sasha Archibald
Balloons in fashion
ARTIST PROJECT / ON THE WING
Nedko Solakov
FOR THE BIRDS: AN INTERVIEW WITH BILL LISHMAN
Sara Harris and Bill Lishman
Father Goose and his whooping cranes
THE BULL RIDER AND THE BALLERINA
Mary Walling Blackburn
Toward a taxonomy of falling
UNLIMITED EDITION / NO FLY ZONE
Lee Boroson
Turn flying fauna into food with the recipes in this box
And
FRONT FLAP / PROMOTIONAL SUPPLEMENT FOR “FLYING-PRACTICAL TRAINING FOR INTERMEDIATES”
Luca Buvoli
BACK FLAP / HOMELESS (#2)
Ester Partegàs
POSTCARD 1 / BOEING 747-400
Andrea Legge
POSTCARD 2 / ARGUABLY INCOMPATIBLE STATE PRIDES
Brian McMullen and Steven Villereal
BOOKMARK
Richard Massey