Memoir
The Betrayal of Light
At the precipice of each instant, two voices speak to me. One says, “You survived.” The other, “It will begin again.”
Abdullah Hany Daher
Essay
The View from Evin
My family’s history with the notorious Iranian prison links me to a world of unfinished liberation movements.
Sahar Delijani
Excerpt
Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist
Najati Sidqi’s reminiscences, which chronicle the upheavals of the early 20th century, resonate with shocking familiarity today.
Najati Sidqi
Fiction
The Event
“Something has taken place that we cannot speak of or know or even fully perceive, yet the fact of which sits before us.”
Henry Bean
Art
The Upper Room
Coleman Collins’s exhibition considers how attempts at making a new world risk reproducing the cruelties of the old.
Joseph Earl Thomas
Poetry
House of Words, Ibau, Where’s Your Story?
“Speed, which once killed us on the streets, becomes a chest sinking to the bottom of the sea. We walk together while making a night full of stories. But where can we go home? The keeper of words has been evicted.”
Afrizal Malna
Poetry
Fish
“I took the bait some time ago”
Birhan Keskin
Review
The Dream Logic of Fascism
In Charlotte Beradt’s study of nightmares under Nazism, the analysis often seems inadequate to the material.
Raphael Magarik
Review
Whose Jewish Dystopia?
With their dark visions of the future, two recent novels illuminate mutually incompatible forms of contemporary Jewish fear.
Lily Meyer
