A man who escaped childhood poverty in Malmö to become a writer is forced to return to a job he held in his youth at a harbor export hub in this excerpt from Kristian Lundberg’s autobiographical novel detailing the collapse of Sweden’s welfare state…

In this short story, Ni-Vanuatu writer Paul Tavo considers a Nouméan who exists outside society.

In two contrasting quartets of poems, New Caledonian poet Paul Wamo reflects on his otherness in France and his deep connection with the natural world of his native Lifou.

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

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