Pregnancy
In the Swahili language and culture, a woman is often identified by her children’s names.
Sketches
Amniocentesis
The odds themselves do not bother me, but I do not like the way they shape-shift.
Sketches
Postpartum
Her swollen breasts leaked colostrum through a printed green sheath dress that she had sewn herself.
Fiction
To Kill a Horse
No doubt the reason we knew the animals so well was because my father was a vet, and so his life and our livelihood were fundamentally entangled with the lives of other creatures.
Report
Suspended States
It is as if losing one’s way of life, even a little bit, might mean losing the war.
Fiction
Shooting at a Handcuffed City
The blindfolded city staggers a little without falling. Meanwhile, my father and younger brother call me to Come over here and have a banana.
Interview
Olena Rybka: Ukraine’s Literary Identity
The editor discusses publishing books in a time of war and working to preserve the Ukrainian language.
Apostrophe
With Matrilineage as a Map
Stories-within-stories is a classic Middle Eastern format with roots much deeper than The Arabian Nights. Your book marries these traditions and implodes them.