Literature & Art

Nonfiction

Along the Tech Front

Author’s Note: Technology has always enabled war. Throughout history, the nation-states that created new weapons through innovation greatly expanded their geopolitical influence. From gunpowder, to the airplane, to the atomic bomb—advances in technology have been

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Poetry

Epistle to a Navy Corpsman 

for Dan Ryan After we spoke of the dead at Giờ Linh and Cồn Thiên, I thought of the bird that came to nest ina dead tree; the deep rhythm, melody as she built it

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Translations

The Darkness in the Boots

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

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Fiction

The Springtime Siege

Editor’s Note: This story is an excerpt from a novel-in-progress.   In the dark of the hall, Faraaz watches his brothers Manzoor and Adil alternately going to the toilet. It’s okay. They’ll tell when they’re

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Stefania

Kalush OrchestraStefania (2022)TRT: 3:08UkraineMusic and lyrics by Ihor Didenchuk, Ivan Klimenko, Oleh Psiuk, Tymofii Muzychuk, Vitalii Duzhyk and Dzhonne Dyvniy The affecting vibe of Kalush Orchestra emerges from a fusion of hip hop and ancient folklore

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Reviews

No Sign by Peter Balakian

No SignPeter BalakianUniversity of Chicago Press, 2022 In his ninth collection, Pulitzer-prize winning poet Peter Balakian grapples with the anxiety and loss endemic to our time. While the poems respond to recent events, they should

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Translations

We Carry Our Dead

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

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Nonfiction

War Seeds 

Take these seeds and put them in your pockets so at least sunflowerswill grow when you all lie down here.— A Ukrainian citizen My grandfather worked as a seed breeder and farmer at Fordhook Farm

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