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Mourn and Organize

By Olivia Schwob

Mother Tongue

By Olajide A. Omojarabi

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Poetry by Subhashini Kaligotla

Raccoon Trouble

By Kimon de Greef

Amir Ahmadi Arian

Amir Ahmadi Arian is an Iranian novelist and journalist. He has written two critically acclaimed novels and a book of nonfiction in Farsi. In English, his short stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Lithub, London Review of Books, Witness magazine, Massachusetts Review, etc. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Queensland, Australia, and an MFA in creative writing from NYU. He currently teaches literature and creative writing at City College, New York.
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Fragments From a War-Torn Childhood

By Amir Ahmadi Arian September 12, 2018
The Iran-Iraq war that made me who I am ended thirty years ago. Keeping quiet will not make it go away. I don’t believe in talking through it, either. Between silence and speech lies the act of writing. This is where I seek my remedy.
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