July/August Issue
August 15, 2025
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Boca del Lobo
August 15, 2025
We orbit violence—the gravity of it, your extraterrestrial hand in mine.
The German Teacher
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
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.
Through the opening on the deck
August 15, 2025
One part of the machinery grabs the other lulling it / They communicate like pictures for the blind.
Spider Flags
August 15, 2025
In parades of work, and parades of hope / dislocated from their own beings / the actors played their roles in the streets
Weathering the Monsoons: Eid-ul-Adha in the Rohingya Camps
August 15, 2025
In weathering the Monsoon, Rohingya photographers reclaim the frame, capturing the space where disaster meets defiance from inside the refugee camps.
On the Train to Cascais
August 15, 2025
an Atlantean as beautiful / as the body of her slippery language,
From the Archives
Andrey Kurkov: The Border Between Real and Surreal Lies Somewhere Else
The Ukrainian novelist on writing during war, using humor and magic to survive, and what’s next for his home country
There are nights that escape
There are nights so long / so very long / they could form rivers of tears
