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Iggy - Guernica

2 months ago | guernicamag.com | Osman Samiuddin |Kamila Shamsie

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Protected: Beyond the Headlines: A Conversation on Palestine, Gender, and the Power of Language

2 months ago | guernicamag.com | Nimmi Gowrinathan |Yara Hawari

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The January Issue

Jan 15, 2025 | guernicamag.com | Youmna Chamieh

For Guernica’s January and February 2025 issues, guest-editors Salar Abdoh, Valeria Luiselli, Heather Cleary, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Omar Hamilton, Maaza Mengiste, Kamila Shamsie, Mirza Waheed, Meena Kandasamy, Jacqueline Woodson, Jamal Mahjoub and Nathalie Handal have selected works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry from writers and thinkers in their communities whom they felt it was important to shine a light on.
Protected: Inventing the Commons: On Alternative Technologies

Jan 14, 2025 | guernicamag.com | Yásnaya Elena Gil |Heather Cleary |Valeria Luiselli

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Protected: Broken Endings, Uncertain Geneses

Jan 14, 2025 | guernicamag.com | Zukiswa Wanner |Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste Maaza Mengiste is the author of the novel, The Shadow King, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. Her debut novel, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, was selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books. Her story, “Dust, Ash, Flight,” was awarded a 2021 Edgar Award for Best Short Story. Her books have been translated into several languages.
Moving Forward

Apr 12, 2024 | guernicamag.com | Michael Archer

Guernica magazine was founded twenty years ago with a mission to confront power with counter narrative. A literary space of dissent that, in the words of George Saunders, “respects the life of the mind with an intensity rarely seen these days,” Guernica is a global community of writers and artists forged through and around the pages of a haven for political writing. Guernica is oriented towards the margins and drawn to the expansive imaginations that emerge from relentless exclusion.
On forging

Mar 5, 2024 | guernicamag.com | Jina Moore

It’s hard to imagine introducing this issue by starting anywhere other than the four-line poem, “Glaze,” by Isra Hassan. It chronicles, essentially, the fall — the leap? — of a glaze into the fire that will transform it. But that question haunts far past the poem’s 30 words: What do we choose, and how do we live with what we witness?
The Noise

Mar 5, 2024 | guernicamag.com | Raymond Antrobus

died so I looked onlineand couldn’t believe the pricefor a new noise, so I boughta secondhand noise, deliverableand like new. The noise arrivedon my windowsillthe next day in a box wrappedwith too much tape. I toreeach layer of the sticky plasticlike unwrapping a bandage. The noise was delicateas a small glassof steam and ash. The thing I liked most aboutthe secondhand noisewas how much it deepenedthe sensation of walkingthrough the housewith a newfoundbreeze. But I didn’t knowhow loud my noise was.
Black Wing Dragging Across the Sand

Mar 5, 2024 | guernicamag.com | Itamar Vieira Junior |Johnny Lorenz

“Not being devoured is the secret goal of an entire life.”—Clarice Lispector, The Smallest Woman in the WorldThe next to be born was quite small, about the size of a sweet potato. The midwife said nothing to the mother at first but, upon leaving the room, warned her that the girl might not survive. No one seemed particularly concerned; after all, if she lived, it would be one more mouth to feed.
The Glove

Mar 4, 2024 | guernicamag.com | Laura McNeal

It’s hard to imagine history more irresistibly told than it is in The Swan’s Nest, Laura. McNeal’s novel about the love affair between two giants of nineteenth century poetry, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. Its contours are, surely, familiar to many — or at least, the letters between them, whose first object of love was verse. McNeal brings us inside their love and lives with a daring imagined intimacy.