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Cities

Photo by Heshan Weeramanthri on Unsplash

Parliament of Dogs

By Nasera Sharma

Seeing their community divided into two camps, some dogs developed a strange arrogance.

Translated from Hindi by Akshaj Awasthi

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An old ornate mansion in India with a green wrought iron gate

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Once Elephants Lived Here: Part 2

By Geetanjali Shree

The city murmured in the mazes of her ancient face.

Translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell

Two blue glass skyscrapers seen from below against a cloudy blue sky

Photo by Shubham Sharma on Unsplash

Once Elephants Lived Here: Part 1

By Geetanjali Shree

Here, all things old have been suppressed.

Translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell

Tree of life carving at the Sidi Saiyyed Mosque

Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Ahmedabad

By Bharat Trivedi

Those days of leaping carefree into the Sabarmati / Are long gone

Translated from Gujarati by Mira Desai

Black and white image of Berlin's Potzdamer Platz in the 1930s.

Sludge G, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Toward a Vision of Post-COVID Urban Space: Joseph Roth’s City of Miniatures

By Alexander Wells

Reading Roth’s Berlin miniatures, a sense of the dynamic between sociability and justice feels essential to the urban experience.

Nuestra Ciudad: Writing the City in Spanish

By Ulises Gonzales

Today, a young writer working in Spanish arrives in New York City to find no shortage of role models.

Statistics

By Álvaro Baquero-Pecino

On a bad night, a train car on the red line takes more than half an hour to appear, and no fewer than twenty-one minutes to traverse the eleven stations to the southern tip of Manhattan.

Translated from Spanish by Sarah Pollack

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The Common Good

By Sara Cordón

All she can think about is why it ever occurred to her to dress like this in public.

Translated from Spanish by Robin Myers

Reckonings: The Queer Issue XII

By Susan Harris

This year we celebrate Pride Month with seven pieces depicting Queer characters confronting decisive moments.

A dark door cracked open to reveal bright red light

Photo by Dima Pechurin on Unsplash

Yun-Fan: Singing the Variety of Queer Life

By Wanning Chen

When I was twenty-three, I met my first girlfriend, who then went off with a man after just four months—and eventually married him.

Translated from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang

Theo

By Fahmi Mustaffa

I'm not like you, Pak.

Translated from Malay by Adriana Nordin Manan

Blue Days

By Fríða Ísberg

That same month, she realizes that she’s never going to stop striving as long as she’s in Reykjavik.

Translated from Icelandic by Larissa Kyzer

Caviar, Champagne, and Fantasy

By Arménio Vieira

The Esplanada, thick with the scent of fragrant [DDT

Translated from Portuguese by Eric M. B. Becker & Shook

Writing by Kazakh Women

By Shelley Fairweather-Vega & Zaure Batayeva

Kazakhstan is the largest country by landmass to emerge from the breakup of the Soviet Union aside from Russia itself, but it has had an undersized impact on world literature.

The Beskempir

By Zira Naurzbayeva

It was the old grandmas themselves, each and every one of them, who were most interesting to me.

Translated from Russian by Shelley Fairweather-Vega

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Dismissed

By Zaure Batayeva

Who needs Kazakh? We are moving to Russia anyway.

Translated from Kazakh by Zaure Batayeva & Shelley Fairweather-Vega

The Nanny

By Aigul Kemelbayeva

The technological age regulates social relations with its robotic fingers, and it does not give a damn about your naturally noble spirit.

Translated from Kazakh by Shelley Fairweather-Vega

Chicago: Present-Day Paradise, Future Magic

By Mahmoud Saeed

The Iraqi love of water has inspired me to learn about the rivers of every city I visit.

Translated from Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins

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Damascus, What Are You Doing to Me?

By Nizar Qabbani

How do the gardens of Sham transform me?

Translated from Arabic by Shareah Taleghani