Memorable recent issues have been devoted to German and Chinese literature. (Its most recent issue focuses on India.) The magazine has also revived its tradition of genre-defying nonfiction, in long-form articles by William T. Vollmann, Mary Gaitskill, Rahmane Idrissa, and the factory poet Xiao Hai, among others. As a writer, Meaney is best known for his essays, which appear in the London Review of Books and The New Yorker, as well as for his reportage in Harper's.