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The May Issue

May 19, 2025

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Awam Amkpa: And So On

May 19, 2025

In a sequel interview, the Nigerian director Awam Amkpa speaks about the missing scenes in his award-winning film, The Man Died, inspired by Wole Soyinka’s 1971 “prison notes.”

All That Blue

May 19, 2025

“When I look at space, more often than not, I am interested in what it tells us about being human.”

Jongo & Adriano

May 19, 2025

In the entrails of Rio’s brush, a flight is in process: Jongo, African of Angola, and Adriano, a Brazilian Criollo, risk the dense forest seeking the freedom to be

Between Sadness and Happiness

May 19, 2025
He used to say, “What’s mine is yours and what’s yours is mine.” I realize now how these phrases have no meaning once you’re pitted against each other, once you need to go your separate ways.

CATEGORY SIX

May 19, 2025
A love story spiraling through myth and memory, “Category Six” captures the emotional force of a storm that defies all known categories and the island that shapes it.

Cut Blooms

May 19, 2025
"I remembered little of the day my mother died, and of the funeral even less. All I retained were a child's impressions: a cup of water in my hand, its surface slowly warming. Black patent shoes on a green lawn, a pair of dangling, stockinged feet. The smell of my father mingled with the stench of his cologne."

Aquaduhka

May 19, 2025
Mothers and young children, however, recreate an original and innovative language… a form of communication that exists outside of hierarchies. Babble is “an overlooked path of insurgency.”

The Grind

“Say it with me!” he leans over in the dark, and grips the sides of his steering wheel like a neck. “They—deserve—to die!”

Chicken

“A little girl is by the communal sinks, humming to herself as she washes her hands. Risham recognizes her as the referee from the game of chicken.”

The Glow

“It doesn’t help that I have no address to guide us, only a pin of a nearby park and a picture of me and Baba standing outside the front door of her place when I was an awkward teenager, squinting into the sun.”
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