Violence

Curved asphalt road on a foggy day in Lebanon

Photo by Dorsa Masghati on Unsplash

A Child’s Smile

By Jadd Hilal

After a dozen or so bombings, Jahid, like my mother had before him, decided we would flee.

Translated from French by Lara Vergnaud

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Estada Feminicida: An image of a poster protesting the murders of women in Mexico.

Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Munkar and Nakir

By Alisa Ganieva

Driving here, did you know you'd die today?

Translated from Russian by Sabrina Jaszi

New Voices: Afghan Women Writers

By Lucy Hannah

A nation’s upheaval cannot be understood without women's perspectives.

The Decision

By Afghan Author D

At that moment, there was another whistling sound, followed by a huge explosion.

Translated from Pashto by Zarghuna Kargar

Khurshid Khanum, Rise and Shine

By Afghan Author B

She could not have known that the caller at the other end of the phone was about to faint.

Translated from Dari by Parwana Fayyaz

Turn this Air Conditioner On, Sir

By Afghan Author C

It is one of those days when the winter sun is gorgeous, and you don’t want to even think of death.

Translated from Dari by Parwana Fayyaz

Daughter Number Eight

By Freshta Ghani

Is it a boy or a girl?

Translated from Pashto by Zarghuna Kargar

At the Coffee Shop

By Rania Mamoun

This man must be high on something, I thought.

Translated from Arabic by Nesrin Amin

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Enemy

By Khalida Hussain

It’s an act of virtue to kill her!

Translated from Urdu by Haider Shahbaz

Behind Closed Doors: Outing the New Chilean Narrative

By Lina Meruane

Contrary to the epic, totalizing, and politically engaged narratives of the Latin American Boom, the scope of the stories here is narrow, intimate, more local than ever before.

Story of a Sheet

By Alejandro Zambra

Days before my dad set the house on fire, there was a sheet drying bit by bit.

Translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell

Hyenas

By Eduardo Plaza

It was impossible to talk to a dead man, so I talked to her instead.

Translated from Spanish by Rahul Bery

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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.

Ali Muhsin Market

By Nadia Al-Kokabany

He tossed and turned in his bed, trying to wrest those hours from his memory.

Translated from Arabic by Thoraya El-Rayyes

Hands

By Anwara Syed Haq

The things he could mend! From jewelry to shoe soles, from punctured tires to bent bicycle spokes–he fixed it all.

Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya

From “The Banquet in Blitva”

By Miroslav Krleza

Croatian writer Miroslav Krleza portrays a distinctly Balkan Everywhere of blended places and events in this surreal novel excerpt.

Translated from Croatian by Edward Dennis Goy & Jasna Levinger

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Violence

A Child’s Smile

Femicider: We Can Only Fight against What We Can Name

Conservation

War of the Species

Dark as a Boy

Magma

Munkar and Nakir

New Voices: Afghan Women Writers

The Decision

Khurshid Khanum, Rise and Shine

Turn this Air Conditioner On, Sir

Daughter Number Eight

At the Coffee Shop

Enemy

Behind Closed Doors: Outing the New Chilean Narrative

Story of a Sheet

Hyenas

Writing Against the Grain

Ali Muhsin Market

Hands

From “The Banquet in Blitva”