Editor’s Note: The following three poems are part of a cycle Olga Bragina wrote in 2023, a year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the spring of 2022, after several weeks of intense bombing, she and her parents left the country. She spent several months...
About the Novel: O Fogo Será a Tua Casa (Fire Shall Be Your Home) by Nuno Camarneiro was published in Portugal in 2018. It tells the story of an international group of hostages being held by rebels in an unnamed war-torn country in the Middle East and focuses on the...
Translator’s Note: Hiba Abu Nada was a novelist, poet, educator, and nutritionist. Her novel Oxygen is Not for the Dead won the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity in 2017. She held a BA in Biochemistry and an MA in Clinical Nutrition from the Islamic University...
Translator’s Note: “How We Spent the Fifties” is a satirical short story from a collection of humorous stories written by Miloslav Šimek and Jiří Grossmann that tells the tale of the turmoil and absurdity of a family that’s bending over backwards in support for the...
Sorrow, Uuganbayar Kh, uugan.art/ Uuganbayar Kh was born in 1979 in Mongolia. He earned his degrees in art from College of Fine Arts, Ulaanbaatar, in 1996, and Mongolian State University of Culture and Arts in 1998. He aims to illustrate the connections between...
Haiti 1, Danielle Legros Georges Translator’s Note: Jean-Claude Martineau is a poet of the underdog. Throughout a long career as a writer (as well as songwriter, composer, activist, and statesperson), Martineau has made visible the experiences of Haitians who fight on...
Translator’s note: There’s Nobody Up There is a joint anti-war project of Ukrainian photographer Arthur Bondar and Russian writer Ksenia Buksha. The source of the book is Bondar’s unique archive of over fifteen thousand negatives of documentary WWII photographs, from...
Young Iranian Basij fighters member of the paramilitary volunteers (Irregular Warfare) fight against Iraq’sarmy in Susangerd front. Boy soldier of the Iran-Iraq war, Hassan “Jangju,” was killed in 1984 duringOperation Kheibar in Battle of the Marshes. Susangerd, Iran...
we carry our dead like childrenlay them out in the plaza and encircle them in the frost the snow bewilderedas if none of us yet knewit was so easy to die everyone still hopesthey will lie there and then get up for what should we tell their momswhat to tell their...
Territorios by Lisa Colorado Original Text: Naturaleza común; relatos de no ficción de excombatientes para la reconciliación [Common Nature: Non-fiction Stories for Reconciliation by Ex-combatants] Ministry of Culture, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, and Center for Memory,...
