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A woman looks out the windows of a slightly dilapidated white brick building.

Kalpana Raina stands in the window of her uncle's former home. Photo by Tanveer Ajsi.

Reclaiming Memories: Returning to Kashmir

By Kalpana Raina

After translating her uncle’s stories, Kalpana Raina returns to her native Kashmir for the first time in forty-eight years.

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A nitrate negative of Gaza

"Gaza. (Ghuzze). Section near the mosque" by American Colony in LOC.

Afterwords

By Sinan Antoon

After our house in Jabalia was destroyed we hid in the UNRWA school. But the bombs followed us there too . . .

Translated from Arabic by the author

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An image of a collection of eggs of various sizes.

"Animals of the Past” by Frederic A. Lucas. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Doppelgänger

By Xavier Valcárcel

she packed my suitcase and said go.

Translated from Spanish by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

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A man paddles a canoe in a river at sunset

Photo by Inu Etc on Unsplash

Roots

By Madhurima Barua

The stench of country liquor assaults her. Her husband is tottering.

Translated from Assamese by Syeda Shaheen Jeenat Suhailey

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A burning match against a blue background

Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash

Embers Fed

By Xavier Valcárcel

My mother and I will burn it all.

Translated from Spanish by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

The Milky Way is pictured above Earth's atmospheric glow blanketing Earth's horizon

Photo by NASA, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Czech Enough

By Jaroslav Kalfař

Home is an ever-changing aspiration, not a truth or guarantee.

Writing Against Estrangement in Galicia

By Scott Shanahan

No doubt a few Galicians will think it in very bad taste to inaugurate this issue with a likeness to their higher profile southern neighbors, but because there may be a great many glad for the comparison,…

The Head of Household Manifesto

By Catalina Mena

The hearth is a fire that’s always being extinguished.

Translated from Spanish by Susannah Greenblatt

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