The February Issue
February 19, 2025
Stained White Curtain
February 19, 2025
"Sometimes, when you live through hard times with loved ones—people you think you know best—old layers of their personalities begin to peel away and from underneath, shines through a new skin."
Bagging Weight
February 19, 2025
"The billboards, giant screens, marquees are off like a giant plug was ripped out its socket. No cash on me, only a bundle of heroin and a useless Metrocard."
When He Said His Name
February 19, 2025
the white labyrinth of love moved my flesh / and grew the time of guilt
Beyond the Headlines: A Conversation on Palestine, Gender, and the Power of Language
February 19, 2025
Palestinian writer and political analyst Yara Hawari on how language shapes narratives of violence, the weaponization of gender portrayals, and the “unchilding” of Palestinian children.
Requiem for my ancestor’s fig tree
February 16, 2025
Which hand sowed the ashes / where the ancestor planted life
From the Archives
A Man Made of Dust
“What is Beshara thinking as he sits on that public bench on Mar Elias Street, staring for hours at the void before him?”
War Forgets No One!
“I had no choice but to become an enemy of war. I fought it through writing—and by writing, I seek to survive.”
Broken Endings, Uncertain Geneses
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.
Inventing the Commons: On Alternative Technologies
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.
