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How to Wash Your Hands in a War Zone

By Gillian Esquivia-Cohen

Stitching and Writing on the Margin

By Roslyn Bernstein

The Requirement of Adequacy

Fiction by Emily Franklin

Maurice Chammah: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty

By Ann Neumann

Akil Kumarasamy

Akil Kumarasamy is a recent graduate of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she received a Meijer postgraduate fellowship, Henfield Prize, and Frederick Busch Prize. She was a 2013-2014 Charles Pick South Asian fiction fellow at the University of East Anglia. Her fiction has appeared in the Boston Review and is forthcoming in Glimmer Train and The Massachusetts Review.
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Shade

By Akil Kumarasamy June 1, 2016

He doesn’t talk much about his life in Sri Lanka before the war, only after, as if in 1983 when everything ended for some Sri Lankan Tamils is when his life begins.

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