Outdated Browser

For the best experience using our website, we recommend upgrading your browser to a newer version or switching to a supported browser.

More Information

Sexuality

Bright green fabric

Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash

Man of Satin

By Souhaib Ayoub

He smoked incessantly. I watched him with a silent longing.

Translated from Arabic by Sharon Grosso

A wagtail perching on a stick by a body of water

Photo by Nikita Nikitenko on Unsplash

A Wagtail’s Song

By Bikash Dihingia

How was it possible that there was another me buried within? And how could someone else feel his presence even before I could?

Translated from Assamese by Harsita Hiya

Multilingual

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.

Plans and Commitments

He checked Mel’s Instagram and Twitter accounts again, waiting anxiously for her to post something, anything.

Translated from Spanish by Samantha Ortega

In Human-Made Society

By Eva Rún Snorradóttir

In order to get a visa, they had to explain to him how two women went about having sex.

Translated from Icelandic by Larissa Kyzer

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,…

Stress

I suspect something in Kinue / reminds him of his own life.

Translated from Galician by Erín Moure

Of Children and Sphincters

By Xurxo Borrazás

“I don’t know where to start.”

Translated from Galician by Adrian Minckley & Jacob Rogers

Four Short Poems

I have licked the tip of evil

Translated from Spanish by Jennifer Shyue

The Golden Children of Sexual Alchemy

Ever since our orgasms became supernatural, we’ve been taking better care of our energies.

Translated from Spanish by Jacob Steinberg

Multilingual

Razor Blade Rattle and the Beginnings of Being Tamed

By Ishraga Mustafa

How could they, when these women themselves had been through so much pain?

Translated from Arabic by Sawad Hussain

Multilingual

Urdu Feminist Writing: New Approaches

By Asad Alvi, Amna Chaudhry, Mehak Faisal Khan, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Geeta Patel & Haider Shahbaz

A dispiriting narrowness has defined canons of Urdu feminist writing from previous decades.

Sappho’s Ephemera

Her sagacity immortalized even her scattered, sporadic axioms.

Translated from Urdu by Geeta Patel

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

From “Notes of a Crocodile”

“What if we ran out of things to talk about?”

Translated from Chinese by Bonnie Huie