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The Man Who Touches Waves

By Kim Soom, translated by Sean Lin Halbert

Hope Dissidents

Mona Kareem, translated by Sara Elkamel

Inside the Afghan Resistance

By Salar Abdoh, Abolfazl Shakiba, and Mostafa Saeidi

On Metaphors and Snow Boots

By Annie Sand

Olena Stiazhkina

Olena Stiazhkina is a Ukrainian writer. Until the Russian occupation in 2014, she lived in Donetsk, where she taught in the history department at Donetsk National University. After fleeing occupation, she founded a nonprofit called “Deoccupation. Return. Education.” She abandoned the Russian language in favor of Ukrainian. She has written novels and collections of essays in addition to academic work. In 2021, she published the novel Cecil the Lion’s Death Made Sense. She is under siege in Kyiv.
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In the First Days of War

By Olena Stiazhkina, translated by Ali Kinsella March 7, 2022
A dispatch from Kyiv
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