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War Stories

The Cleric and I

“Would I take a bullet for this man?”

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Women, Writing War

By Eliza Griswold

It’s a dubious privilege that a woman can tell war stories as brutal and devastating as a man can.

The Scream

By Claudia Salazar Jiménez

The Party. The Revolution. Blood. All of it, together.

Translated from Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer

Tito and Taxidermy, or What If Tito Had Been on Twitter?

By Ajla Terzić

The human factor is not essential. Sunscreen—now that’s essential.

Translated from Bosnian by John K. Cox

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The Seed of Evil: Sarajevo 1995

By Sonia Ristic

You don’t become a war correspondent by accident or by chance.

Translated from French by Paul Romano

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From “What are the Blind Men Dreaming?”

The compassionate understand pain, but pain cannot be understood; those who suffer understand nothing.

Translated from Portuguese and Serbian by Julia Sanches & Ellen Elias-Bursać

The True Story of “Faccetta Nera”

By Igiaba Scego

A black woman, in the regime’s view, simply could not be an Italian.

Translated from Italian by Antony Shugaar

From “Raking Light from Ashes”

By Relli Robinson

Now you’ll be our daughter a little bit too.

Translated from Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan

Crow, Wheels

By Lyuba Yakimchuk

Joyful relatives poured vodka for themselves / and for the dead

Translated from Ukrainian by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky

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[The whole soldier doesn’t suffer]

By Lyudmyla Khersonska

The whole soldier shrugs off hurt.

Translated from Russian by Katherine E. Young

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Curfew . . .

By Rocio Tábora

But the evil blanketed her room and she agonized without remedy.

Translated from Spanish by Gabriel Saxton-Ruiz

Mass Grave

By Faleeha Hassan

Our hands could not grip anything as long as their hands gripped our lives.

Translated from Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins

Like a Body Turned Inside Out

By Yaghoub Yadali

Borzu Alvandi will always wonder why he wasn’t martyred.

Translated from Persian by Sara Khalili

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Rahman’s Story

By Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar

I lost two people, I’ll take two people . . . with this very bayonet.

Translated from Persian by Sara Khalili

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The Neighbor

By Goli Taraghi

We have no choice but to obey.

Translated from Persian by Azizeh Azodi

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