*Editor’s Note: All paintings are acrylic on canvas and were completed from 2024-2025 Since April 2023, a civil war has been raging in Sudan between two rival factions of the country’s military government: the Sudanese
In the Market Cross Shopping Center, down the car-park stairwell, three young men shared a joint. Emilio Evans passed the spliff to Heboru Newman, sitting on the step below him. “Do you think Bertie Ahern molests
The sudden ring of the phone in the darkest part of the night jars me. This is probably not good. “Hey, Corporal. Oops—Lieutenant, how are they hanging?” a very boozy, familiar voice from my past
Author’s Note: I was born in February in 1941, with the winter tremors of war already in my bones and therefore part of my personal and national inheritance. “Homeopathic Remedies for War Fever” seeks to
Peace is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O’BrienBy Alex VernonSt. Martin’s Press, 2025 Tim O’Brien’s thirteen-month deployment to Vietnam produced The Things They Carried, his indelible literary response to the war. He was
Taliban fighters crowd onto military vehicles, white flags raised high as they move through the street. Photo: Ziaullah Ibrahimkhil I am a woman who loves life and the act of living. Why? Perhaps because death
*Translated into English by Peter Brown and Caroline Talpe. You can read Emmanuel’s original review in French here. Gaza, Is There Life Before Death?An anthology of poems, translated from Palestinian Arabic to French by
Buying and Selling The work of Ojo Olaniyi reflects a richly decorated narrative style depicting everyday scenes in the kaleidoscope of Nigerian life. Olaniyi’s art comprises vignettes of social and commercial life in a technique known
Five-and-a-half weeks before Toshihide Nakagawa dies, his son Yusaku takes him to see a rerun of the film Rocky at the Paradise Repertory Theatre in Burakuricho, Wakayama, a theater known for its continuous state of disrepair. Toshihide has
New York TrilogyBy Peter BalakianThe University of Chicago Press, 2025 Here’s a strange thing: as I read Peter Balakian’s New York Trilogy, I kept thinking of Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach.” Not because they resemble each other—although
Photo of Svitlana in Berlin by Morris Weiss Author’s Note: The core of this article was based on interviews with Svitlana Petrovskaya, a ninety-year-old Ukrainian woman currently living in Berlin. We had access to her collection
Author’s Note: In the late 60s, when I was a teenager, we were all anti-war—the war in Vietnam. The guys had to register for the draft as soon as they turned eighteen. The you of this poem
