COVER FEATURE
Dystopian Visions
featuring
Elizabeth Fifer
Kiriu Minashita
Michelle Pretorius
Yuri Herrera
Yoss
Basma Abdel Aziz
Susan Smith Nash
Claudia Salazar Jiménez
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thebmag, “Another Nuclear Winter,” Dogern, Germany, December 3, 2005 German writers are tackling the complex question of writing the environment in diverse narrative forms that provide... -
Illustration: Heidi Tailleferr First and foremost, we focus on the comfort of our clients.” “And what aspects of your operations are oriented toward that goal?... -
An aerial view of hydraulic fracturing in progress at Jonah Field in Wyoming. Photo: Bruce Gordon / Ecoflight The growth of hydraulic fracturing has inspired a subgenre of dystopian novels envisi... -
Photo: YSBRANDCOSIJN / 123rf stock photo Who needs confusing laws and bothersome committees when you have an autocrat writing principles for every aspect of your life? He was not tall or br... -
Yoss. Photo: Restless Books When we were together in Cuba in early 2015, I took a photo of Yoss tenderly holding a kitten we encountered in Old Havana. When I later asked him about life during Cuba’s... -
Photo: www.flickr.com/people/fineplan When you are a pestilent being the world stops being pestilent. Or does it? Each night Rafa stares at the vestibule in hatred until those in li... -
Michelle Pretorius It’s 2010 in Unie, South Africa, and Constable Alet Berg is in search of her rise from disgrace. Banished from Jo’burg’s Special Forces Unit to a rural community, Berg finds hersel... -
Photo: Susanna Hsing Rhythm Lucretius’s atomic rain falls graduallyabove daily congestion, wetting my earlobes with noise.I’ve swallowed the good parts of several dropssleepy dissonance. On one side,... -
Marcus Jansen, When the Cowboys Came, 2012, mixed media on canvas. llustration: Artist Rights Society, (ARS) New York VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Courtesy: Unit A Studio and Residency Dystop...
