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September Issue

By Youmna M. Chamieh September 17, 2025

The Harvest

By Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler September 17, 2025

In this story, horror is visceral – unearthed and alive – as Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler draws us back to the buried histories of inheritance and erasure that lie just beneath the surface of our lives.

Spotlights

In Search of Ouologuem

By Vamba Sherif September 17, 2025

My journey—on the surface, an attempt to trace my heritage—had in fact been driven all along by a deep longing to meet the man and hear his story.

Essay

Tourists

By James Chan Yu September 17, 2025

“Chiang Mai is unreasonably hot for Christmas.”

Fiction

An Emptiness Yet to Come

By José Mármol translated by Nathalie Handal, with Eileen O’Connor September 17, 2025

The omen of your absence remains in the halls / an emptiness yet to come, a muteness marking the end of your words

Poetry

The Sad Ballad of Wyckoff

By José Mármol translated by Nathalie Handal, with Eileen O’Connor September 17, 2025

Like the sea, tragedy / knows no fatigue, there is no rest in its mysteries.

Poetry

Anna Bruno: Suspense, Secular Gods, and Scandal in an Elite Catholic School

Maria Kuznetsova Interviews Anna Bruno September 17, 2025

The writer on creating a protagonist who feels authentically young yet insightful, transitioning to writing suspense, and tackling the Catholic church.

Interview

Colophon II

By Sylvie Kandé, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson September 17, 2025

Mics and cameras line up / on the threshold like spikes.

Poetry

Visitation

By Sylvie Kandé, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson September 17, 2025

her face / to the cutting edge of the blade / The scar I tell you

Poetry

Waltz of Stone

By Sylvie Kandé, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson September 17, 2025

Pause between two claps of thunder The artist makes the most of it to belt out his song

Poetry

Rembrandt, Know Yourself

By Thomas Schlesser, Translated by Hildegarde Serle September 17, 2025

"How's it possible to carry on painting when your life's so awful?"

Fiction

Boca del Lobo

By Vanessa Micale

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

Essay

The German Teacher

By Amalia Ulman

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

Fiction

Darkness

By Danijel Dragojević

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

Poetry

Freedom

By Danijel Dragojević

chasing that fleeting moment of freedom – so ripe and glistening

Poetry

Through the opening on the deck

By Danijel Dragojević

One part of the machinery grabs the other lulling it / They communicate like pictures for the blind.

Poetry

Spider Flags

By Dragana Tripković

In parades of work, and parades of hope / dislocated from their own beings / the actors played their roles in the streets

Poetry

Hymn to Killing

By Tomica Bajsić

like angels / entering the plexuses of saints

Poetry

Rites of Spring

By Tomica Bajsić

For a second it seems like we're all made of sun

Poetry

With Your Hair Wet

By Jovica Ivanovski

Don’t go out with your hair wet / you might catch a cold.

Poetry

Weathering the Monsoons: Eid-ul-Adha in the Rohingya Camps

By Rohingyatographer Collective

In weathering the Monsoon, Rohingya photographers reclaim the frame, capturing the space where disaster meets defiance from inside the refugee camps.

Spotlights