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Ileya

By Adedayo Agarau

There are nights that escape

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

This is war

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Death’s night won’t come gently

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Jina Moore Ngarambe

Jina Moore Ngarambe is Guernica’s editor-in-chief.
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On Forging

By Jina Moore Ngarambe March 5, 2024
Our March issue

Seeing Red

By Jina Moore Ngarambe February 5, 2024
The February issue
Concentric circles in yellows and greens
Editor’s Note

Confrontations

By Jina Moore Ngarambe January 16, 2024
Our January issue
Art

Art as Activism

By Jina Moore Ngarambe December 11, 2023
A collection by artists from Gaza — and a call to US museums to exhibit their work.
a topographical map in closeup
Editor’s Note

Before and After

By Jina Moore Ngarambe December 11, 2023
Our December issue
Interview

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.
An image by artist Alexandra Sophia Handal

Voices on Palestine

By Jina Moore Ngarambe November 6, 2023
A Guernica collection
Editor’s Note

In Search of Passage

By Jina Moore Ngarambe November 6, 2023
The November issue
A man wearing a mask
Editor’s Note

Of Monsters and Men

By Jina Moore Ngarambe October 2, 2023
The October issue

How to Read a Body

By Jina Moore Ngarambe September 5, 2023
Our September issue
A sketch of a circle, from a medieval text about the origin of the cosmos.
Editor’s Note

Where to Begin

By Jina Moore Ngarambe August 7, 2023
There is something, this month, about beginnings. Stay with me, they insist, at varying decibles.
Interview

Jack Jung: “Perhaps they regard us as barbarians at the gates”

By Jina Moore Ngarambe and Jack Jung July 12, 2023
On the literary world's erasure of translators as artists — and on the beauty and challenge of translating an inimitable Korean poet
Editor’s Note

Celebrating Kim Hyesoon

By Jina Moore Ngarambe July 6, 2023
Our July issue
Editor’s Note

We Are Who We Want

By Jina Moore Ngarambe June 5, 2023
Our June issue explores desire.

In Search of Radical Care

By Jina Moore Ngarambe May 1, 2023
Our May issue, with Rafael Frumkin, Sena Moon, Sara Petersen, Yoko Uema, Wayne Koestenbaum, Tuệ Sỹ, and more
Editor’s Note

The April 2023 Issue

By Jina Moore Ngarambe April 5, 2023
Guernica goes monthly — with a new photography series about climate change, the latest Back Draft, and a genre-bending work of nonfiction as resistance from Iran.
Sketches Health

Amniocentesis

By Jina Moore Ngarambe August 15, 2022
The odds themselves do not bother me, but I do not like the way they shape-shift.
Commentary Conflict

Suffering Is for Other People

By Jina Moore Ngarambe March 8, 2022
We’re not surprised by white refugees. We’re terrified by what they represent.
Interview ConflictEurope

Julia Lieblich and Esad Boškailo: Life After Karadzic

By Jina Moore Ngarambe August 15, 2012

A Bosnian genocide survivor and a human rights journalist confront terror, loss, and what it takes to heal.

Commentary ConflictUSA

Colorado, Gun Control and the Great American Malaise

By Jina Moore Ngarambe July 25, 2012

Can we afford to be this cynical?

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