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Alienation

An overhead shot of an empty brick elevator shaft

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By Iryna Shuvalova

I want to speak like a woman who burns a pile of old paper in the street / and the flame dances but you can’t see her face

Translated from Ukrainian by Uilleam Blacker

Multilingual

A hand hovering over a pill organizer filled with multicolored pills

Photo by Laurynas Mereckas on Unsplash

Boulder

By Eva Baltasar

Having a kid is the same as enrolling in a lifetime plan of suffering.

Translated from Catalan by Julia Sanches

Writing Against Estrangement in Galicia

By Scott Shanahan

No doubt a few Galicians will think it in very bad taste to inaugurate this issue with a likeness to their higher profile southern neighbors, but because there may be a great many glad for the comparison,…

You’ve Likely Never Been to a Party This Big

By Borja Bagunyà

In a house like this you imagined all the stories had happy endings.

Translated from Catalan by Scott Shanahan

The Vegetarian

“Your body smells of meat.”

Translated from Korean by Deborah Smith

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A flowering bush, a leafy shrub, a bonsai tree, and a cactus stand in a row in front of a white...

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Bonsai

By Guadalupe Nettel

El Grand Balam Award-winner Guadalupe Nettel channels Haruki Murakami in this tale of plants and alienation.

Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey

knight from chess set

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The Knight

By Olga Tokarczuk

Why are you crying? he said. Over chess, over that knight?

Translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft

From behind a Closed Window

Is there, out there, a nothingness / With no future, and no past?

Translated from Vietnamese by Martha Collins & Ngo Tu Lap

Memories of Lily-Colored Photographs

By Jung Mi Kyung

These pictures were for the two of us to look at, laughing, never something to keep or show someone else.

Translated from Korean by Chi-Young Kim