I am a woman who loves life and the act of living. Why? Perhaps because death has always been close to me—not the quiet kind that comes in old age, but brutal deaths, the kind where over two hundred people vanish in a single explosion.
Editor’s Note: This piece was 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
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Don’t Shout Anymore Stop killing the dead,Don’t shout anymore, don’t shoutIf you still want to hear them,If you hope not to perish. They have an inaudible whisper,They don’t make noise anymoreThan that of the growing
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Years ago, as a visual artist who was deeply disturbed by the Gulf War, I began creating a series of ink drawings and collages as a way of expressing my thoughts and feelings about war. I
Editor’s Note: While most of the stories we receive and publish are between one thousand and five thousand words, today’s online feature presents four flash stories ranging from 844 to just 266 words. Inhabiting the rich
