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Religion

This Language Called Kaaps: An Introduction

By Olivia M. Coetzee

Language is more than just a method of communication. It is about the ability to lay down roots, to settle into an identity, to have a place in history, in the present, and in the future. Language is…

The Wind Blows Where It Wishes and You Hear Its Sound

By Andre Trantraal

It should be patently obvious to anyone but the most resolutely blind that he is not aching with impatience to go to the house of the Lord.

Translated from Kaaps by the author

I Lift My Eyes Up

By Nashville Blaauw

Where moving out is mostly in a coffin

Translated from Kaaps by Andre Trantraal

Munkar and Nakir

By Alisa Ganieva

“Driving here, did you know you’d die today?”

Translated from Russian by Sabrina Jaszi

Old Isidoro

By Luís Romano

As soon as he came around the bend at Passo Preto, he raised his pistol and fired into the air.

Translated from Cabo Verdean (Santo Antão Dialect) by Jeff Hessney

Multimedia

Across Mountains and Valleys: Stories of Migration from the Kinnaur and Spiti Valleys

By Arshia Sattar

Despite their specificity, these tales transcend the places that produced them and throb with a universal appeal.

The Story of Sunni and Bhunku

By Himalayan Oral Tradition

Why, oh why, did you not come back immediately?

Translated from Lahouli by Noor Zaheer

The Veil: An Extremely Short Play

By Mansour Bushnaf

The men pull dollar bills out of their pockets and throw them at the women’s heads.

Translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Writing Against the Grain

By Alice Guthrie

The writers here are pushing the boundary of the known and working against the grain of the status quo.