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July/August Issue

By August 15, 2025

In an interview with writer and human rights investigator Michael Shaikh on food’s significance to communal memory and its weaponization in conflict zones, he notes: “Food is a language of implication. It’s not always as precise as the written or spoken version. But it can be equally profound.” His reporting—from Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, […]

Boca del Lobo

By August 15, 2025

We orbit violence—the gravity of it, your extraterrestrial hand in mine.

The German Teacher

By August 15, 2025

“To wear the uniform of the cobrador was to become a leper. Nobody wanted to be anywhere near me.”

Michael Shaikh: The Last Sweet Bite

By and July 31, 2025

Michael Shaikh, author of The Last Sweet Bite, on how food is weaponized in conflict zones to starve bodies and cultures, as erasure becomes policy and preservation a form of resistance.

Darkness

By August 15, 2025
I ask the wise and quiet painter Oskar / Herman what he thinks happens later. Darkness, darkness, he replies readily.

Clayton

By August 15, 2025
Clayton’s friendliness kept me from looking straight ahead and waiting for the light to change.

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July/August Issue

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In an interview with writer and human rights investigator Michael Shaikh on food’s significance to communal memory and its weaponization in conflict zones, he notes: “Food is a language of implication. It’s not always as precise as the written or spoken version. But it can be equally profound.” His reporting—from Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, […]

Ileya

By Adedayo Agarau
With feathers in his throat, Baba Ngani Agba opens the morning. In that record, he and his apala band sing about kindreds.

Wind

By Adedayo Agarau
It could be my ghost finding / the touch of its mother in a house where the doors are / shutting against the portals of grief. I could be coming / through the window as wind.
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