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April 2021 At Journeys End Iceland Life Jackets Feature

At Journey’s End

By Steinunn G. Helgadóttir

This last shift, the boats came in all night and we ran out of everything.

Translated from Icelandic by Larissa Kyzer

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Portrait of writer Natalie Bakopoulos

The City and the Writer: In Athens with Natalie Bakopoulos

By Nathalie Handal

I’m always a bit shattered by Athens.

Portrait of writer Christopher Bakken

The City and the Writer: In Thessaloniki with Christopher Bakken

By Nathalie Handal

Dig anywhere in the city and you collide with history.

The City and the Writer: In Athens with Amanda Michalopoulou

By Nathalie Handal

Athens is about instant decisions, constant change, boldness and confusion and nerve.

The Tongue’s Story

By Krisztina Tóth

It’s because we don’t speak their language. That’s why they’re defiling our food.

Translated from Hungarian by Owen Good

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Cock-a-doodle-do

By Pan Bouyoucas

“Why didn’t you tell her about the rooster?”

Translated from French by Éric Fontaine & Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

Just Dinner, but Oh, What a Feast

By Rohan Kamicheril

Though food may fail to broker communication, this is often one of its major supposed roles.

Not Bread Alone: Food and the Refugees in Greece

By Diana Farr Louis

Whereas shelter and safety must come first, the question of food is so fundamental.

An Endless Green Line

By Gianluca Costantini & Elettra Stamboulis

Every town had two soccer teams. A right-wing one and a left-wing one.

Translated from Italian by Jamie Richards

Comics and Graphic Narratives: A Global Cultural Commons

By Dominic Davies

Comics themselves have a role to play in the construction of a more globally aware social consciousness.

Piece by Piece They’re Taking My World Away

By Christos Ikonomou

I say we go. It can’t be worse than it is here.

Translated from Greek by Karen Emmerich

Tomorrow

By Auguste Corteau

A girl will head toward the taxi stand, dragging a noisy suitcase far too small for her hopes.

Translated from Greek by Karen Emmerich

from “Overdue Loans”

By Petros Markaris

There are riot police trucks blockading the street, not even a mosquito could squeeze by.

Translated from Greek by Karen Emmerich

Woman in Tree

By Amanda Michalopoulou

Today we have with us the woman who toppled the government.

Translated from Greek by Karen Emmerich

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Fragments of Sappho

By Geoff Wisner

and lovely laughing – oh it / puts the heart in my chest on wings