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A Second of Stillness

Under a boundless sky stretching across the horizon, enveloped in a silence spanning miles, Diganta sat beside his favorite person.

Translated from Assamese by Harsita Hiya

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Esther Allen makes laudatory remarks at the 2023 Ottaway Award ceremony honoring Daniel Hahn

The Multitudinous Daniel Hahn: A Laudation

By Esther Allen

He sees an opportunity, creates a network of support for it, and makes something transformative happen.

People holding hands circling a fire on a street

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Reflecting on One Hundred Days of Woman Life Freedom

By Razieh Mehdizadeh

You came up the stairs of the Haghani subway station, and with you the life of the whole nation of Iran came up its throat, leaving its body.

Translated from Persian by Poupeh Missaghi

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A Kiss between Boys

By Victor Heringer

They all eyeballed one another, weighing up the possibility of a mass brawl.

Translated from Portuguese by James Young

A black-and-white portrait of Mosab Abu Toha

The City and the Writer: In Gaza with Mosab Abu Toha

By Nathalie Handal

“Gaza is the soil where the tree of my consciousness and enlightenment has grown.”

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Strands

By Verena Rossbacher

He laid the hairs out in front of him on the kitchen table, stretched out straight and flat next to each other like the strings of an instrument.

Translated from German by Anne Posten

"Emiliano Zapata on horseback, scene from the Mexican Revolution," José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913), ca. 1911. Public domain. Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930.

Unspeakable Fermentations: Putrefaction and Social Revolt in Paris and Mexico City

By Diego Rodríguez Landeros

With canine relish and human shame, I’d rather sniff than taste.

Translated from Spanish by Robin Myers

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