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Family in a tunnel

Photo by Lute on Unsplash

Family in a tunnel

Photo by Lute on Unsplash

Because of a Woman: Two Poems

By Babeth Fonchie Fotchind

Dutch poet Babeth Fonchie Fotchind remembers the women in her family and evokes her family’s immigration from Cameroon to the Netherlands in these two poems.

Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison

Portrait of author Karim Kattan

Photo: R Topakian

The City and the Writer: In Jericho with Karim Kattan

By Nathalie Handal

Karim Kattan talks with Nathalie Handal about borders, oral storytelling, and tropicality in Jericho.

Person in front of a blue city

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

The March 4th Incident

By Sabda Armandio

In this excerpt of Sabda Armandio’s futuristic crime novel 24 Hours with Gaspar, a writer begins investigating a mysterious criminal named Gaspar.

Translated from Indonesian by Lara Norgaard

Shadows in a dark room

Photo by Parker Coffman on Unsplash

Ancestors: Two Poems

By Alfred Schaffer

Dutch poet Alfred Schaffer remembers his parents and evokes his Aruban ancestors in these two poems.

Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison

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The Rahue River winding through lush greenery

Manuel cossu, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Reductions

By Jaime Huenún Villa

Jaime Huenún Villa remembers his Huilliche-Mapuche ancestors and their wise way of being in the territory.

Translated from Spanish by Cynthia Steele

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Empty train tracks disappearing into the horizon in a dry landscape

Photo by Robert Linder on Unsplash

The Kettledrum

By Siddique Alam

An Adivasi widow is forced to join her son and daughter-in-law in the city in this excerpt from Siddique Alam’s collection The Kettledrum.

Translated from Urdu by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

A row of building windows facing another row of windows in front of it

Photo by Sabri Tuzcu on Unsplash

Parentheses

By Felipe Franco Munhoz

Felipe Franco Munhoz follows two pandemic-bound neighbors seeking connection through a window in this installment of our Time Signatures series.

Translated from Portuguese by Alison Entrekin