The January Issue

By Youmna M. Chamieh January 15, 2025

From Snakewoman

By Dario Bellezza, translated from Italian by Peter Covino January 15, 2025

Crazed, crazed for love, to love / thresholds oblivious and rabid for trade

Poetry

War Forgets No One!

By Stella Gaitano, guest-edited by Jamal Mahjoub, translated by Najla Eltom January 15, 2025

“I had no choice but to become an enemy of war. I fought it through writing—and by writing, I seek to survive.”

Essay

Broken Endings, Uncertain Geneses

By Zukiswa Wanner, guest-edited by Maaza Mengiste January 15, 2025

Coupled with her Tannie Sallie being ill, her mama and Elsie’s death and everything that had happened in this camp, her little mind was so sure that more cruelty would kill her.

Fiction

A Man Made of Dust

By Tarek Abi Samra, guest-edited by Salar Abdoh, translated from Arabic by Lina Mounzer January 15, 2025

“What is Beshara thinking as he sits on that public bench on Mar Elias Street, staring for hours at the void before him?”

Essay

A Star from the Land of the Dead

By Najwan Darwish, translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid January 15, 2025

Your departure’s no departure, / your return is no return

Poetry

A Letter from Ain Defla

By Najwan Darwish, translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid January 15, 2025

I’m standing in the fog / and I cannot stay.

Poetry

From III – Rome

By Dario Bellezza, translated from Italian by Peter Covino January 15, 2025

Perhaps tomorrow I’ll come to a green / field,—and I’ll no longer be alone.

Poetry

From Secret Death

By Dario Bellezza, translated from Italian by Peter Covino January 15, 2025

We should all take note of this: / that we are flesh and we die.

Poetry

Inventing the Commons: On Alternative Technologies

By Yásnaya Elena Gil, guest-edited by Valeria Luiselli and Heather Cleary, translated by Heather Cleary January 15, 2025

If the strategy of reciprocity made it possible to survive the disaster of colonialism, it could also be a response that makes non-capitalist technological innovation possible.

Essay