Five Questions for Claire Jia, author of Wanting, which tells the story of a rejuvenated friendship between two young women, Lian and Wenyu, who reconnect in Beijing years after Wenyu left for the US
July 10, 2025
This is a story of dispossession and a man who wrestled with God: sometimes dispossession as in simply being thrown out on the street in Lower Manhattan, or in Punta Arenas, or Anywhere, stripped of our stuff, and left to survive
“Let the world know that we are ghosts indeed—since ghosts cannot be extinguished, nor can they be defeated.”
A writer in the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza contemplates the many losses across multiple displacements and what the destruction wrought on Gaza says about the nature of this world.
“I heard the earth whisper to the tree / whose branch had been snapped by the wind: / a stronger bud will grow, you’ll see, / in place of your missing limb,” from “In This Dream,” by Sahar Rabah (trans. Wiam El-Tamami)
“Dreaming of a clear sky, unmarred by airplanes. / Of clouds observing their own reflection in the windows’ tears. / An innocent day: no news of dead friends in the mail,” from “Dreaming of a Clear Sky,” by Nasser Rabah (trans. Wiam El-Tamami)
“A moment ago I was screaming under ash and rubble — / A final missile sent me vaulting up your way / and now I’ll inform you of what you’re incapable of / understanding!,” from “To That Final Missile, My Thanks,” by Hend Jouda (trans. Ali Al-Jamri)
Beach Penguins
Photo by Dav
A Cough
In this flash fiction from Argentina, a woman with a long list of symptoms empties herself during a medical exam.
Pizza
A mourner at a funeral reflects on the role of queer elders.
A writer living in Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza faces great loss with no way to say goodbye.
“Gaza Voices” is a collection of stories, poems, and reflections that journey on the moving locomotive of literature and history. These are not mere words on a page; they are the breath of survival, the rhythm of defiance, the heartbeat of a people whose story has been written in the ink of struggle.
Myth lives on in Central Asia, but it has changed shape. Through multimedia projects, audiences become participants in rituals rather than mere participants, and multimedia artists create myth anew.
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.
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.
Doubt and Interpretation in Someone Like Us: A Conversation with Dinaw Mengestu
An interview with Dinaw Mengestu, whose latest novel Someone Like Us, is both “mystery and meditation” that “challenges [the] dominant narrative with a multiplicity of stories.”
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