It’s Important I Remember That Things Are Getting Back to Normal Around Here —

By Cortney Lamar Charleston November 6, 2023

the trains are busy with bodies

Poetry

In Search of Passage

By Jina Moore Ngarambe November 6, 2023

The November issue

Editor’s Note

An image by artist Alexandra Sophia Handal

Voices on Palestine

By Jina Moore Ngarambe November 6, 2023

A Guernica collection

Déja Vû

By Tiffany Marie Tucker November 6, 2023

It had been sixty years since Mommy Mae left Tchula, Mississippi for Chicago, and she still believed that education was a salve for the systemically bruised. I wasn’t as sure, but journeyed to Iowa City on the fuel of her faith.

Essay

Salar Abdoh: On “how to keep your decency and your humanity in a world that has gone insane”

By Jina Moore Ngarambe and Salar Abdoh November 14, 2023

His new novel, A Nearby Country Called Love, offers tenderness, nuance, and surprise in Iran.

Interview

[The Tip of the Stalk]

By Ernst Meister, translated from German by Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick November 6, 2023

The tip of the stalk / draws / the tossed flower —

Audio Poetry

abstract art with lines suggesting a woman's face

Our Sister Killjoy

By Fungai Machirori November 6, 2023

A remembrance of Ama Ata Aidoo

Apostrophe Lit World

Komorebi

By Tanmayi Gidh November 6, 2023

Somewhere on another continent, in a city far away, on the twenty-fourth of January, a clock chimed at midnight, indicating we had run out of time.

Fiction Spotlights Guernica Global Climate & Environment

Flipping Grief

By James McNaughton November 6, 2023

This is loss. Memory, damp and compact as clods of earth, is dried out in the marketplace and burned as turf.

Essay

If You Cut Me, My Mother Bleeds

Amanda Su November 6, 2023

There were limits to what you were willing to dare with a body that, by some weird alchemical feat of skin and blood, you shared with your mother.

Fiction Family & Relationships

Revision

By Hala Alyan November 6, 2023

I don’t mean to hate the sparrows.

Poetry

A black and white illustration of a wildflower meadow.

In Bloom

By Katarzyna Szaulińska, translated from Polish by Mark Tardi November 6, 2023

Once the flower emerged, the itch subsided.

Fiction Bodies & Nature

Allegiance

By Susan Kiyo Ito November 6, 2023

They couldn’t call me a Jap when I was wearing a Girl Scout uniform. It was too American. It was like a shield.

Essay The Cutting Room

An illustration of two human silhouettes against a blue background.

Until the End

By Carl Phillips

Perversion, sang the sea, / in waves.

Poetry

The Rebellion

By Suhit Bombaywala

I thought fondly of the comics and sketchbooks that had kept me sane and alive during my stifled childhood. I wouldn’t exchange them for this palace.

Fiction Family & Relationships Work & Money

Garden

By Ahmet Baitursynuly, translated from the Kazakh by Jake Zawlacki

Clouds concealed, / Now settled down

Poetry

A Temporary Arrangement

By Steve Chang

I’d hold my breath and keep still, resolved to treat the voices the way I would any bully. If they fed on my attention, I would starve them.

Fiction Family & Relationships

Strangers in India

By Thrity Umrigar

Here he was, getting ahead of himself as usual. Mummy looked as if she could slip away tonight.

The Cutting Room

When Horror Is the Truth-teller

By Alexander Chee

It is hard, in the era of the AR-15, to fear a vampire.

Essay

Histories

By Mandy Moe Pwint Tu

In 1988 our fledgling nation drowned again in blood and clamshell clanging, oh how holy the flesh on pagoda stairs

Audio Poetry

The Protagonist Is Never in Control

By Emily Fox Kaplan

An upended fairy tale

Essay Family & Relationships

Of Monsters and Men

By Jina Moore Ngarambe

The October issue

Editor’s Note

Essay On Tilt

By Kimberly Quiogue Andrews

Winter. A small door opens, and on the other side, a brightness.

Poetry Anthologia