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Tales from the Inuit War   It might have been two years ago when a man approached me in the street. He grabbed my arm and hastily told me the story of his humiliation. Somewhere, some people had placed some kind of ...

An excerpt from Tales from the Inuit War by Imre Wirth Translated by Gabor G. Gyukics

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      Katherine Irajpanah is a writer and postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in the Colorado Review, Peripheries, Only Poems, California ...

Two Poems by Katherine Irajpanah

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It was the first week of the war, and Israeli Adir fighters had taken over Tehran’s sky. In the city’s haze, they were silver ghosts—flashing in and out, leaving rubble and a low roar that trembled through the ...

Would You Call It a Miracle by Farzin Farzam

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Acts by Spencer Reece Reviewed by Alexis David Publisher: ‎Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication date: ‎May 28, 2024 Print length‏: ‎128 pages ISBN: 978-0374100834 Love, Doubt, Wonder, Faith:  A Review of ...

Acts by Spencer Reece Reviewed by Alexis David

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These five poems are co-translations by the author with either Elina Alter or Eugene Ostashevsky, as noted after each poem. * In Memory of Alexei Navalny he died a natural deathshe died a natural ...

Poems by Inna Krasnoper Translated by Elina Alter and Eugene Ostashevsky

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When my mother first left Iran,she didn’t know she’d never return.No jewelry—just thyroid pills,a change of clothes, three photographs—one of me, gap-toothed, smiling.No suitcase could carrywhat she left ...

The Doorstep by Leila Farjami

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He is the first Black photographer she has ever worked with, older than Steffi but nebulously so, in that she isn’t sure his exact age. Later, he will tell her he is 25, but something about the way he repeats this age, ...

Kots by Eirinie Carson

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Boneyard Heresies by Tina SchumannReviewed by Sarah Carey Publisher: Moon City Press Publication Date: February 3, 2025ISBN: 978-0-913785-75-1Page Count: 98 pages To borrow a ubiquitous phrase, poet Tina ...

Boneyard Heresies by Tina Schumann Reviewed by Sarah Carey

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Minimum Snowman Little Les had no face. His head looked like a pancake. You could say he was pancake-faced. I always wondered about that; I never understood how he could stay alive like that – without eyes, without a ...

Short Story by Márton Böszörményi Translated by Gábor Dajka

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