Translator’s Note: “How We Spent the Fifties” is a satirical short story from a collection of humorous stories written by Miloslav Šimek and Jiří Grossmann that tells the tale of the turmoil and absurdity of a family that’s bending over backwards in support for the...
Sorrow, Uuganbayar Kh, uugan.art/ Uuganbayar Kh was born in 1979 in Mongolia. He earned his degrees in art from College of Fine Arts, Ulaanbaatar, in 1996, and Mongolian State University of Culture and Arts in 1998. He aims to illustrate the connections between...
Haiti 1, Danielle Legros Georges Translator’s Note: Jean-Claude Martineau is a poet of the underdog. Throughout a long career as a writer (as well as songwriter, composer, activist, and statesperson), Martineau has made visible the experiences of Haitians who fight on...
Young Iranian Basij fighters member of the paramilitary volunteers (Irregular Warfare) fight against Iraq’sarmy in Susangerd front. Boy soldier of the Iran-Iraq war, Hassan “Jangju,” was killed in 1984 duringOperation Kheibar in Battle of the Marshes. Susangerd, Iran...
we carry our dead like childrenlay them out in the plaza and encircle them in the frost the snow bewilderedas if none of us yet knewit was so easy to die everyone still hopesthey will lie there and then get up for what should we tell their momswhat to tell their...
Territorios by Lisa Colorado Original Text: Naturaleza común; relatos de no ficción de excombatientes para la reconciliación [Common Nature: Non-fiction Stories for Reconciliation by Ex-combatants] Ministry of Culture, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, and Center for Memory,...
