The June Issue
June 15, 2026
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The Gateless Gateless Gate of the Poem
June 15, 2026
Dualism is the figure in the cave staring at the shadows on the wall; nondualism is the figure stepping out of the cave and looking at forms directly.
After Hunger: In Conversation with Sean Sherman
June 15, 2026
Looking to the future, I see a different way of peeling back those layers of enduring colonialism: looking at how we learn from Indigenous peoples globally who’ve held the key to working with nature, to maintaining an abundance of plant diversity, to understanding how to tend to the earth.
Old Darkness / Under a New Moon
June 15, 2026
flame, making him, for that moment, the brightest star
Origin Story for War
June 15, 2026
We tell ourselves / they are all like this: enemy is not a word / with a name or a family.
On Loving Birds
June 15, 2026
A couple of years after I began volunteering, I realized I was hell-bent on healing birds because they, too, had healed me—in more ways than one.
From Recent Issues
Female Fighters
In partnership with the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative at the City College of New York.
New Series: Rewriting the West
Reconsidering the origin stories and mythologies of Los Angeles, Texas, Arizona, the Alamo, and a family.
Notes on Going Viral
What I dream of, then, when I think about what Jürgen Habermas called “the postsecular society,” is a foggy middle path. I’m not willing to fall for the false choice between religion and democracy simply because either feels like more solid footing than walking the tightrope between them.
Snow
Each country has laid claim to the Kashmir Valley as their own, while its people struggle for self-determination.
Crow Language / Crow Testament / Crow Gospel
Black as what? Coal before fire, ink before alphabet, secrets hoarded in a madman's coat.
I Was Trying to Photograph a Feeling: Showkat Nanda on Buried Archives, Generational Memory, and Dreaming Against Forgetting in Kashmir
How do photographs carry the afterlives of violence? Threading together personal and collective histories, photographer Showkat Nanda reflects on documenting Kashmir not merely as a site of conflict, but as a lived world shaped by endurance and the struggle against forgetting.