Fiction
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November 16, 2022 |
Photo by Gerardo Covarrubias / Unsplash It’s Australia’s first Halloween under the TASLA government. But what will it mean to Recharge a loved one? Evana is cooking chicken for the t... -
August 22, 2022 |
Sugar cane fields at sunset, near Les Trois Mamelles, Mauritius. Credit: Ian Boswell In this excerpt from the forthcoming translation of the seminal Mauritian Hindi novel Lal Pasina... -
August 9, 2022 |
Photo by john_Onate / flickr Book of the Damned is a novel that charts—through multiple narrators who may or may not be invested in the truth about a central shadowy character, Felix Canel... -
May 25, 2022 |
Photo by Aaron Burden / Unsplash While recovering at the hospital following a fall, a woman in her seventies recounts her life living under the thumb of a domineering husband and expresses... -
May 18, 2022 |
Photo by Myznik Egor on Unsplash 1999 by Ilija Trojanow In the old days, an adulterer was considered morally corrupt. Bad man, bad little man. If it was someone from... -
March 2, 2022 |
Photo by Pierre Châtel-Innocenti / Unsplash In Winter Lights, rising star Irati Elorrieta’s first novel, Añes is a Basque woman who has immigrated to Berlin by way of Paris. Her s... -
February 8, 2022 |
Photo by Guile Twardowski / Unsplash Malika Moustadraf is a feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her stark interrogation of gender and sexuality in North Afric... -
November 17, 2021 |
Homa, The Tree of Zaqqum (2012) / Wikipedia The following satirical column first appeared in Persian on Afghanistan International. The Taliban have faced censure fro... -
September 13, 2021 |
Drawing inspiration from the writing of Lesley Nneka Arimah, Edwin Okolo creates a world of birth factories, colossal levees, secret labs, and New Biafra, where we find Ameli, Lotanna’s wife—beca... -
June 24, 2021 |
Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, France / Photo by Linda Gerbec / Unsplash Gare du Nord (an excerpt) It’s 12:30 p.m. and her pale-blue blouse is soaked in sweat, her w... -
June 22, 2021 |
Photo by Hollie Santos / Unsplash When a woman’s husband leaves her, she feels betrayed by her daughter, who had not been able to fulfill her duty, her purpose for coming into existence.... -
June 7, 2021 |
Photo by Peter Boccia / Unsplash After renting a room in an Indian family’s house in England, the Croatian tenant becomes privy to one member’s dreams of return. “This is it!” Parvati... -
May 17, 2021 |
Photo by Aaron Burden / Unsplash Cleaning out her deceased father’s home in Dublin, a woman reluctantly accepts help from an unsettling stranger. My two sisters and I work throughout... -
January 25, 2021 |
Photo by Dan Meyers / Unsplash A doctor on his village rounds confronts the same symptoms again and again, including uncontrollable laughter. The first patient of the day is an old wo... -
August 13, 2020 |
Photo by Eric TERRADE / Unsplash A Sri Lankan village’s sole film critic tells the story of Gamini: “My generation might be the last to remember the Sri Lankan movie maniacs like him. So,... -
July 8, 2020 |
Photo by hdur / Flickr Prohibitions to Cristina Peri Rossi, for the structure It’s difficult sometimes, but we have learned. We make acts of contrition each night wi... -
June 8, 2020 |
Photo: Quentin Lagache / Unsplash In this story of lengthy quarantine due to an unnamed virus, a woman sneaks into the mountain to collect ferns—many ferns. Simultaneously evoking life und... -
July 25, 2019 |
Photo by Stephen A. Wolfe / Flickr Flamingo #13 may have been the most beautiful flamingo in the world the villagers had ever heard of. All throughout the year, there was talk of it everywhere... -
June 20, 2019 |
Gunter Silva and 2019 WLT Translation Prize (Fiction) winner Samantha Vila “Numbers are the language of the universe,” my father would often say. “The only path to discover the myster... -
June 6, 2019 |
Vincent Brassinne, “Purple Hell – Trees in Motion 2” / Flickr On June 3, 1510, the graying Arbërian prince Gjon Muzaka was sitting at his desk.[i] He had the vertiginous feeling that his eyes... -
May 16, 2019 |
Photo of Tétouan by Jean-Louis Potier / Flickr An early novel, L’Écrivain public (The public scribe) is a surrealistic, semi-autobiographical work that imagines the arc of the aut... -
April 4, 2019 |
Sodanie Chea, “Day 96: Free Falling – Explored” / Flickr Israeli writer Tehila Hakimi’s Company (2018) is an experimental, fragmentary text—addressed to a nameless “woman in a wor... -
March 7, 2019 |
Photo by Kevin Bessat / Unsplash In this fictive dialogue of Johanna Schopenhauer with her son, Arthur, family appears as a philosophical playing field: mother-root and son’s wants. Of dre... -
November 13, 2018 |
Female redback spider / Photo by serapheus / Courtesy of Flickr A poisonous spider, a fascinated boy, an indulgent dad, and a cautious mom ignored by all. What could possibly go... -
October 19, 2018 |
Photo courtesy of freestocks.org In this opening to Montenegrin writer Olja Knežević’s novel Gospođa Black, a group of migrant friends drink tea together in London. An antilove...
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