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Fiction
Gaza by the Sea
Sunset in Gaza City, August, 2023 | Photo by author Author's Note: “Gaza by the Sea” was inspired by true events; the characters and plot line are fictional. The story was written in the summer of 2023, prior to the...
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...
Poetry
Wounded Soldier to Fred
A poem by William Derge that pays homage to Fred Astaire and the part he played during the war by entertaining the troops.
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...
Translations
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...
Nonfiction
Sarah Comes Home
“Good Evening, We are from Ukraine”: Voices of Cultural Resistance
At first, nineteen-year-old Ilia Kashtalianov was not sure why he started painting the walls of his university dorm room in Kyiv. Once he began, he couldn’t stop. The multicolored images appeared as a hallucinatory mash-up of Chagall folk motifs and ghost-like creatures. It didn’t take...
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...
Reviews
Daybreak: A Novel by Matt Gallagher
The notion of “the good war”—a just, nationwide effort against an obvious and perilous aggressor—pulses through Matt Gallagher’s latest novel, Daybreak (Simon & Schuster, Feb 20, 2024). This...
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...