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An illustration of two human silhouettes against a blue background.

Until the End

By Carl Phillips
A black and white illustration of a wildflower meadow.

In Bloom

By Katarzyna Szaulińska, translated from Polish by Mark Tardi

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

By Cortney Lamar Charleston
Shadow of home plant on wall

[The Tip of the Stalk]

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

Elias Khoury

Born in Beirut, Elias Khoury is the author of thirteen novels, four volumes of literary criticism, and three plays. He was awarded the Palestine Prize for Gate of the Sun, which was named Best Book of the Year by Le Monde Diplomatique, The Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a Notable Book by the New York Times. Khoury’s Yalo, Broken Mirrors, White Masks, Little Mountain, As Though She Were Sleeping, The Journey of Little Gandhi, and City Gates are also available in English.
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Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam

Fiction by Elias Khoury, translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies May 6, 2019
I admit I felt something strange as I listened to the popping of the bones as they were devoured by the fire: Murad spoke, and I saw. It was grief. Grief squeezes the heart till you feel you’re about to die and your heart bleeds tears into your eyes.
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