EssayLives

The History Before Us

By Jessica Jacobs January 21, 2019

How can we be sure the atrocities of the past will stay in the past?

ConflictHistory

Fiction

The Emperors of Existence

An excerpt from the short story collection by Sándor Jászberényi, translated from the Hungarian by Paul Olchváry December 28, 2018

It’s not good if you’re a man, and alone, when others are fucking your kid’s mother. I got on my leather jacket and left. I took a cab all the way down the Corniche, along the Nile.

ConflictMENA

Report

Footsteps in a Marked House: The Complex Role of Women in Pakistan’s Police Force

By Nazish Brohi December 20, 2018

Women's recruitment into elite commandos, formed in response to post-9/11 terrorism, was not driven by a desire for diversity in the workplace, but by the need to conduct raids and arrest militants without alienating local communities.

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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.

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