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kretek-ing

By Zahid M. Naser

bloodrush like the swell of desire in a room / surging higher and higher to my eyes, craving life

Translated from Malay by Pauline Fan

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By Lauri García Dueñas

to the rain looming over mexico city open your jaws for us make kids laugh dogs bark

Translated from Spanish by Olivia Lott

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Life Is a Pose

By Julio Villanueva Chang

In his spare time, he wears clothes.

Translated from Spanish by Nicolás Medina Mora

Urdu Feminist Writing: New Approaches

By Asad Alvi, Amna Chaudhry, Mehak Faisal Khan, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Geeta Patel & Haider Shahbaz

A dispiriting narrowness has defined canons of Urdu feminist writing from previous decades.

Enemy

By Khalida Hussain

“It’s an act of virtue to kill her!”

Translated from Urdu by Haider Shahbaz

Behind Closed Doors: Outing the New Chilean Narrative

By Lina Meruane

Contrary to the epic, totalizing, and politically engaged narratives of the Latin American Boom, the scope of the stories here is narrow, intimate, more local than ever before.

Chilean Electric

By Nona Fernández

Nobody couldn’t have a belly button.

Translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

That Woman

By Rodolfo Walsh

I buried her standing, like Facundo, because she had balls!

Translated from Spanish by Cindy Schuster

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