Anik See

Essays

The Crush and the Rush and the Roar

Anik See

And a sort of current ran through you when you saw it, a visceral, uncontrollable response. A physical resistance to the silence

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Rayya Liebich

Essays

Righthand Justified

Language built on sounds of delight, coloured in the gardens of Beirut

Quade Hermann

Dispatches

The Gist of Everything

My mother stands at the top of the stairs, thin as a skeleton and reeking of booze. “Are you drunk?” I ask. “No,” she says. “Have you had anything to drink today?” “No,” she says. Lies, all lies. There are always more.

Michael Hayward

Reviews

Reading Writing

The French writer Julien Gracq, who will be ninety-seven this year, is a living link to the era of Louis Aragon and André Breton. Gracq has avoided the kind of recognition that most modern writers crave (he refused the Prix Goncourt in 1951), and his body of work is little known on this continent.

Paul Dhillon

fiction

Severance

I had screwed up in making us blood brothers. Outside of basketball, we were different

Nofel

Poetry

In Arabic

Arabic would’ve never been were it not for our eyes

RJ McDaniel

Comics

Petrine

I made a plan to get out

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