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“Perennially curious, eager to reckon with the world head-on, Guernica draws readers into uncharted conversations and traces the complex ligaments connecting culture, politics, art, and ecology. Over twenty years, Guernica has built an impressive record as a place of first publication for important writers and thinkers. Guernica’s ability to deepen our sense of wonder, of responsibility, and of connection is rooted in a core conviction that we must hear from diverse voices and diverse places.”
—Whiting Prize Judges Citation
“Guernica, a small online literary magazine that punches way above its weight class.”
—NPR Book News
“Guernica is a desperately needed antidote to a culture that favors nonsense, commerce, and simplification over art, dialogue, nuance. The world—terrible, heaving, gorgeous—is found shining in every edition of Guernica.”
—Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
“To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.”
—Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs
“There’s no online magazine quite like Guernica—serious and lively; dignified and youthful; an invaluable forum for those who care about art, dialogue, and the future of the world.”
—Richard Price, author of Lush Life
“Guernica respects the life of the mind with an intensity rarely seen these days.”
—George Saunders, author of Tenth of December
“Guernica consistently raises the tone of the political and literary conversation.”
—Francine Prose, author of Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
“This magazine is inspired by powerful iconography—place, event, work of art—and reminds us that some defeats are only pauses.”
—Jamaica Kincaid, author of See Now Then
“Guernica stands out as a cultural and political force.”
—Bustle