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May 29, 2025
German writer Anja Kapunkt’s story “Tempestuously, with Great Vehemence” takes inspiration from the second movement of Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.
When long-haired androgynous creatures, flying over Delhi, begin to show up on Snapchat feeds and WhatsApp posts, military measures must be taken.
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
“Every time we lay claim to something, we fall into the yarns of loss. Don’t let the pretense of ownership run away with you,” from a poem by Marie Lundquist (trans. Miriam Åkervall)
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
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.
Goodbye to Everything and Everybody
Naomi Shihab Nye recalls the “precious tender threadbare glory of each day” she experienced as a child who was not in a hurry to grow up.
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.
An introduction to four interviews for the Bearing Witness section exploring Black history and Black life in Santa Monica.
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.
Punishment Without Crime: A Conversation with Laila Lalami
A conversation between Emily Doyle and Laila Lalami, whose The Dream Hotel, takes a harrowing look at data-driven surveillance.
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