Guernica

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Literary politics. Essays, interviews, poetry, and fiction from a writer-centered editorial. Bylines often outpace the bigger magazines a year later.

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Visions

Cousin, I have had a premonition.

Feb 15, 20162 min read

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the underworld

your sad eyes are a river the locals know not to swim

Feb 15, 20161 min read

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The Naked Maja, or La Petit Mort

“You’re delicious,” he says, meaning it, remembering the taste of mango.

Feb 15, 201621 min read

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High Dive

Male staff members at the Grand waded through the myths that surrounded her, enjoying the feeling of being stuck.

Feb 15, 201618 min read

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Remembering Leila Alaoui

The work and lasting legacy of the young photographer killed in the Burkina Faso terrorist attack.

Feb 15, 20164 min read

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Slow Thinking

An Unnatural Pursuit.

Feb 15, 201611 min read

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Deadly Decisions

The authors of The Good Death and Five Days at Memorial discuss disaster preparedness, impossible health care choices, and the notion of journalistic objectivity.

Feb 15, 201620 min read

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Marjorie Liu: Making a Monstress

The author on writing for Marvel, race and invisibility, and the radicality of romance novels.

Feb 15, 201628 min read

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John D’Agata: What We Owe History

“An essay is something that tracks the evolution of the human mind.”

Feb 15, 201629 min read

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Istanbul’s Wandering Songbirds

Street vendors are outlaws by definition.

Feb 15, 201617 min read

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Dean Kostos: This Is Not A Skyscraper

The power of pauses, structure, and zebra metaphors at Coney Island

Feb 16, 201612 min read

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When Justice Doesn’t Feel Just

The unforeseen consequences of a gender discrimination complaint

Feb 16, 20169 min read

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Kamal Aljafari: Unfinished Balconies in the Sea

Filmmaker Kamal Aljafari talks to Nathalie Handal about the poetry of memory, and displacement in Palestine

Feb 18, 201624 min read

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Postcards from Munich

On the front lines of Europe’s immigration crisis

Feb 19, 201613 min read

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Exxon’s Never-Ending Big Dig

Flooding the Earth With Fossil Fuels

Feb 19, 201616 min read

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Teddy and Me

Recalling Ted Cruz at Princeton, and some good advice

Feb 24, 20165 min read

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A Closer Look at The Revenant

The depictions of Native Americans in Hollywood are still Hollywood

Feb 25, 20166 min read

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Interlude

Kissing strangers in the rain

Feb 25, 20163 min read

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The Diversity Bubble and the Fight for Inclusion

Why visibility is not enough

Feb 26, 201610 min read

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Letter to a Future Daughter on the Occasion of the “Fishball Revolution”

When Hong Kong used to be home

Feb 29, 201611 min read

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The Life of Hamet Dean

What happens to Africa’s child soldiers when the war is over?

Feb 29, 201615 min read

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There’s no such thing as a free symphony

We reap such risky skills from childhood

Mar 1, 20161 min read

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Hera, Say Hello

Why, among this applause, have I become so small in this life

Mar 1, 20161 min read

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The Vertical Frontier

I could tell that he preferred each and every stranger, even strangers he had not met yet, even strangers he imagined, he preferred those strangers to me.

Mar 1, 201645 min read

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The Tale of the Hag

Her feet were brown. She ambled closer. Darling, I’m you, she said. I’m you from the future.

Mar 1, 201617 min read

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The Wealth of Nations

Nigerian artist Victor Ehikhamenor fills oil drums with the trauma of national memory.

Mar 1, 201610 min read

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Eve Ensler, Monique Wilson, Nimmi Gowrinathan, and More: Bodies of Revolution

Female leaders from around the globe trade notes on building a new women’s solidarity movement.

Mar 1, 201627 min read

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Mother is Marxist

The market scans my child, calculates pecuniary value.

Mar 1, 201610 min read

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John Freeman: Dignity Through Narrative

“Think about the last time you read a novel in which someone went to cash a benefit check or paid for food in food stamps.”

Mar 1, 201621 min read

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The Buddha of Kabul

At Tepe Naranj, archaeologist Zafar Paiman is working to preserve the remnants of an ancient monastery—and the memory of Afghanistan’s Buddhist past.

Mar 1, 201623 min read