The Photography of David Murphy
These photos show northern Afghanistan, especially the area around Mazar-e-Sharif, from the years 2008–2010 when American and ISAF troops were in force and the war in Afghanistan was ongoing. Mazar is an ancient city,...
The Shadow of Our Own Bomb
In this short story, Shannon Frost Greenstein depicts the Rosenberg trials and executions from their children’s perspectives, offering a nuanced look into this moment in history.
Silent Night
The United Press work room at the Nuremberg Trials. Source: The National Archives and Records Administration via the Courtroom 600 project. Editor’s Note: At the end of this story is an audio recording of the author...
Blackout
At sundown, we would go for walks along the road that went from the airmen’s quarters toward Central School. It was a quiet road back then, when we lived there for a brief while in 1971. The streetlights beside the road...
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2, Item E
In June, the apricot tree saggedwith squat fruit that fell splat on the sidewalk. Children jumped for the velvet orbsBy mid-July, all had disappeared.All, except juice stains on concrete. As if no velvet, no fruits, ...
The Pforzheim Quartet
Editor’s Note: We're so excited and honored to be publishing this excerpt from Alexandria Peary's long poem, "The Pforzheim Quartet," which engages with history and memory through the use of extraordinary language, image, and sound. When we on the...
What the Black Sea Throws on the Shore
Identified by Unique Manicure Author’s Note: this poem was written in response to this image—created by Oana Maria Cajal—which is both about the war in Ukraine and part of a collaboration project titled "Shattered." Neptune Beach, 315 miles...
Peabody museum closed for renovations, March of 2020
We met under the octopus, tentacles suspended over us,gathering us in. I will return here over and overafter the war has separated us, the basementhas separated us, the dead dog in the streethas separated us. I will return here, I will turn my face...
Captive
About the Novel: O Fogo Será a Tua Casa (Fire Shall Be Your Home) by Nuno Camarneiro was published in Portugal in 2018. It tells the story of an international group of hostages being held by rebels in an unnamed war-torn...
The Poetry of Hiba Abu Nada
Translator's Note: Hiba Abu Nada was a novelist, poet, educator, and nutritionist. Her novel Oxygen is Not for the Dead won the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity in 2017. She held a BA in Biochemistry and an MA in Clinical...
War Dog
The Battles
Tasnim News Agency via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED I don’t like my last name. Well, the first part of the hyphenation, the Bernstein. As a child, I thought it lumbering, inelegant. The name comes from a father I haven’t interacted with in decades. It brings to mind schoolyard...
Outdoor Encampments
A sign for a restaurant at the Del Rio port of entry. Photo: Jenn Budd. Few Americans understand the policies that make up the immigration deterrence operations of the US Border Patrol. These mandates are often confusing and can change drastically from one administration to the next, or...
Congressional Hearings Are a Pretext for Assault on Higher Education
From left: Harvard president Claudine Gay; Penn's Liz Magill; Pamela Nadell, a professor of history and Jewishstudies at American University; and Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT. Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images....
Daybreak: A Novel by Matt Gallagher
To say that Gallagher depicts the veteran community well is like saying Mozart wrote some good music. More than that, though, Gallagher makes me proud to be a member; a feeling I don’t have as often as I’d like. About 18 percent of the more than one thousand people charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, attempted insurrection served in the military. As veterans we should not only claim our best—many of whom can be found among the international legionnaires—but also acknowledge our worst.
Farewell Valley: a Novel by Im Ch’ŏru
Farewell ValleyBy Im Ch’ŏru, translated from the Korean by Jennifer M. Lee and Jonathan R. Bagley (MerwinAsia, 2016) Readers new to Korean literature who value historical memory as a gateway to truth,...