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Displacement

Black and white photograph of Sámi people traveling with reindeer

Swedish National Heritage Board, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

The Deportation of the Northern Sámi

By Elin Anna Labba

The children ask where they are going. They, too, have begun to grasp that they are not heading home.

Translated from Swedish by Fiona Graham

Photo of the Oudezijds Kolk canal in Amsterdam

Bert Kaufmann from Roermond, Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

from The Ministry of Pain

By Dubravka Ugrešic

Instead of talking, they seem to be patting each other with words, spreading a soothing, sonorous saliva over one another.

Translated from Croatian by Michael Henry Heim