EssayLives

Our Last Days in Country

By Curtis J. Graham November 29, 2018

A young Marine on being eighteen and deployed a few miles from the D.M.Z., meeting girls and waiting for ghosts.

Asia & OceaniaConflictTravel & AdventureUSA

Interview

Marie Brenner: Public Stories and Private Wars

By Matthew Miles Goodrich November 8, 2018

The investigative journalist discusses her outspoken father, a notorious encounter with Donald Trump, and the legacy of an impassioned late colleague

ConflictPolitics

Lives

Fragments From a War-Torn Childhood

By Amir Ahmadi Arian September 12, 2018

The Iran-Iraq war that made me who I am ended thirty years ago. Keeping quiet will not make it go away. I don’t believe in talking through it, either. Between silence and speech lies the act of writing. This is where I seek my remedy.

ConflictMENA

News

Ballots and Bloodshed: The Militarization of Local Politics in South Africa

By Christopher Clark September 4, 2018

Political violence in the province of KwaZulu-Natal reveals a bloody history still haunting the country’s democracy.

AfricaConflictPolitics

Report

On a Greek Island, Refugees’ Hopes Are Put on Hold

By Helen Benedict August 30, 2018

Refugees are landing on the island of Samos in staggering numbers. Once there, they face grim living conditions, local hostility, and futures of endless waiting.

ConflictEurope

Report

Leaving Karachi

By Sheila Sundar August 28, 2018

On the anniversary of the brutal partition of India, the author reflects on her uncle's coming-of-age in wartime Karachi: a child’s-eye view of power, identity, and a nation being ripped apart.

Conflict

AudioPoetry

Etymology.

Poetry by sam sax August 24, 2018

the etymology of gun is hunger

Conflict

Fiction

Fruit of the Drunken Tree

An excerpt from the novel by Ingrid Rojas Contreras July 26, 2018

I look around to see who’s missing. My eyes are adjusting. Terrible for the eyes to adjust and see that it is my father who is missing, it is my oldest brother, Tobias, and the second oldest, Ricardo, who are missing.

AmericasConflict

Essay

Russian Reversal: Performing Class and Power on Victory Day

By Roy Scranton July 16, 2018

The ways that Moscow commemorates victory over Nazi Germany bear a striking resemblance to the U.S.

ConflictHistory

Interview

Roy Scranton: Some New Future Will Emerge

By Amy Brady July 10, 2018

The author and Army veteran on climate change, war, and "the radical transformation of the basic structures of our existence."

Climate & EnvironmentConflict

Poetry

Eye Bank

Poetry by Ahmad Faraz, translated from Urdu by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb June 6, 2018

Tell them come take my eyes / Before my body gives out

Bodies & NatureConflict