Escape from Little Island
June 10, 2021
New York City welcomes the bad future of urban planning.
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How I Kill Soldiers
Fady Joudah, the translator of the following poem, discusses it in an essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read it here.
Colonial soldiers,what have they been doingto my poetry all these yearswhen I could have easily killed themin my poemsas they’ve killed my ...
Realism’s Revenge
June 07, 2021
Do we have more to learn from the nineteenth-century novel?
Fresh Hell
June 04, 2021
There Will Come No Rains
Free Malala
The suffocating fate of being a celebrity and a ”legend” at twenty-three.
Late-Stage Fairytales
June 03, 2021
Against “How I Built This.”
Old Master
June 02, 2021
On the life and afterlife of the Bernhardian monologue.
Dawn
Dawn broke on our heads.Endings were cut down to size.Our little ones’ feetrapidly turnedtoward the sky.Time set itself asideand places shut their eyes,like a child with wordsthat gray behind her lids.Ceilings tumbledwaterfalls of stone,and under the rubblethe last perceived ...
Poems From Palestine
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Fresh Hell
May 28, 2021
You, the Bounty Hunter
Internal documents recently obtained by Motherboard demonstrate the depths that Citizen—a social network for reporting crime that was tellingly first christened “Vigilante”—is willing to go to hook its users. People who download the app are ...
Applejacking
Short fiction by Michael Wasiura.
Show of Farce
Modi’s government goes to war with Big Tech