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By Ahmed Isselmou

“The central server is under attack and receiving commands to self-destruct.”

Translated from Arabic by Katharine Halls

A Tactical Alliance

By Mamadou Kalidou Ba

Depleted as they were, they realized that they had to either team up or go under.

Translated from French by Ros Schwartz

“Reality (Unfortunately?) Varies”: A Conversation Between Galina Rymbu and Ilya Danishevsky

By Galina Rymbu

“It seems to me—perhaps naively—that poetry has the ability to examine things in a maximally authentic way.”

Translated from Russian by Anne O. Fisher & Helena Kernan

Six Proposals for Participation in a Conversation about Bread

“That’s what we get for supporting Communism: standing in line for this black loaf.”

Translated from Arabic by Alice Guthrie

A close-up image of crystal meth.

Radspunk, CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons

A Blackened Land

By Kim Yeon-Seul

The earth is dark, the sky is dark, and the people’s hearts are dark.

Translated from Korean by Sora Kim-Russell

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A close-up of a soccer ball on a lawn.

Photo by Marcus Spiske. Creative Commons.

The Men over the Hill

By Hisham Matar

As a child, Hisham Matar learns how many dictators it takes to field a stray soccer ball in this memoir.

Doors, Windows, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control

By Esther Allen

Lex and I came to the strange realization that we, and Alejo Carpentier, had effectively been censored by the United States government.

Nabokov in Brasov

By Mircea Cartarescu

I was asked to join Securitate.

Translated from Romanian by Julian Semilian