Images of war in media and elsewhere are largely populated by men; and while men may dominate battlegrounds, they also too often monopolize the narratives that grow out of them. In this month’s issue, ten women—infiltrators and dissidents, witnesses and survivors—write from on and off the battlefield to produce a singular group of war stories. Claudia Salazar Jiménez and Rocio Tábora examine the scars, figurative and literal, left by Latin American conflicts. In her innovative memoir, Noemi Jaffe raises questions about children’s identification with their parents’ suffering. Relli Robinson’s little girl is puzzled by two adults insisting on playing house. Alja Terzić imagines a Tweeting Tito. Playwright Sonia Ristic portrays a jaded war correspondent making a gruesome discovery. Poets Lyuba Yakimchuk and Lyudmyla Khersonska set the Russian-Ukrainian conflict to verse. Igiaba Scego examines the enduring legacy of racism in war songs from Italian-occupied Somalia. And Faleeha Hassan’s grieving narrator rewrites her cousin’s last battle.
