Fiction

The Left Behind

Fiction by Madiha Sattar September 13, 2017

"I live in fear of the day he will leave me again. But for now I am high on the intensity with which he says he loves me."

Asia & OceaniaConflict

Interview

Suzy Hansen: The Rest of the World Knows

By Nicholas Bredie September 7, 2017

The writer on living abroad in Istanbul and the fraught concepts of American innocence and empire.

ConflictLit WorldPolitics

Lives

Svetlana Alexievich: A Poet of People

By Josh Zajdman August 30, 2017

The “Nobel laureate of Russian misery” reaches American readers, and new heights.

Conflict

AudioPoetry

After Dinner

By Sasha Pimentel August 21, 2017

The serrated are only / 
for dining, the curved ones for husking / 
muscle from the bone

Conflict

Lives

Foreign Body Ear

By Amital Stern August 1, 2017

On living in Jerusalem

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Report

Eating with the Enemy

By Lilly Lampe July 31, 2017

“Every American has a relationship with Iraq,” says artist Michael Rakowitz, the creator of Enemy Kitchen, “whether they like it or not.”

Arts & CultureConflict

Essay

Not Tragedy, but Atrocity

By John Patrick Leary July 25, 2017

Grappling with the legacy of the Algiers Motel Incident, half a century later.

ConflictUSA

Essay

The Fire in Dunkirk

By Jacob Albert July 24, 2017

Shadows of life in a Kurdish refugee camp.

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Review

Drawn and Quartered

By Hunter Braithwaite July 18, 2017

Sarah Sentilles’s new book offers a meditation on war, art, torture, and memory.

ConflictLit World

Interview

Aurora De Armendi: Where Is the Center of the Ocean?

By Meaghan Winter June 5, 2017

The Cuban American artist on migration, detention, and what it means to ask open-ended questions.

Arts & CultureConflict

Photography

The Road to Tel Afar

By Salar Abdoh May 29, 2017

Following the Hashd al-Shaabi, the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq fighting ISIS, I’d become more superstitious in small ways—and the more superstitious I became, the more I feared loss.

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