An interview with Rosalie Moffett, whose third poetry collection, Making a Living, features the sacred and the mundane colliding as the speaker negotiates pregnancy and early motherhood amidst the economies and desires that shape
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The following is adapted from the editor’s note introducing What This Place Makes Me: Contemporary Plays on Immigration, forthcoming from Restless Books on April 29.
“The leaves are moving — like tongues, like time, like tradition, / like things rise inside an oven, soft and curious. / The leaves are moving — they’re like smoke, / always waiting for the wind to push them,” from “Asvattha,” by Sumana Roy
Guest editor Amit R. Baishya introduces this special section on Delhi | In the Anthroposcene
“Beyond / this tedious Monday calm, an algorithm // without hunger / without teeth, something thrums / like a splinter of unease beneath the soles // of my feet,” from “Rhesus macaque,” by Nitoo Das
it’s the first time in weeks i’ve been / able to stay all day on my feet & this / makes me want to say yes & keep / saying it,” from “First Warm Sunday of the Year,” by Safia Elhillo
“you dance / because your bellies are empty . . . / that’s how you fight loneliness & the biting economic meltdown . . . / you men with villages of wives,” from “the dance,” by Vonani Bila
Symbiot
Following a crisis, a doctor’s focus shifts to a mysterious infiltration.
The Captive
A man shelters from war in Gaza with his ailing fish, his mind turning to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
Leila’s Dream
“Death by literature”? Despite her fatal diagnosis, Leila Ross clung to reading till the very end.
Poupeh missaghi reached out to a few people on the ground in Tehran and asked them to share their observations and insights on contemporary reading habits in Iran.
In this review-essay, Laura Pensa considers Las niñas del naranjel, a historical fiction that is also intimate, deviant, and populated by other presences.
In his plea for the planet, in which “humans understand themselves as a harmonious part of the Earth, neither more nor less than other animals, plants, and rocks,” Spanish writer Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga advocates a new geo-humanism that restores nature to the center.
Traversing the Human/Simian Divide: A Conversation with Prateek Vats
A conversation with Prateek Vats, whose film Eeb Allay Ooo! is part of an emergent oeuvre of multispecies cinema from India.
9 Questions for Katie Goh
An interview with Katie Goh, whose book, Foreign Fruit, follows the complicated history of the orange, an investigation that parallels Goh’s search into her own heritage.
Historic Black Santa Monica: A Conversation with Leana Brunson-McClain
Karlos K. Hill interviews Leana Brunson-McClain, who reflects on the vibrant Santa Monica Black community that was and her efforts to preserve its fading memory.
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