About the places that shape us and that we shape - narratives on the Syria of yesterday and the Syria of today.

On the morally ambivalent reading of E.E. Cumming's poems, particularly "my sweet old etcetera", a poem about and against war. Or is it?

A coming-of-age story from Kolkata

Even before the 2019 revolution and the current civil war, the Sudanese were fighting against their ruling elite: a literary reportage

Muscat seen through a writer's eyes

A story from Timor's colonial past - Translated into English from the Indonesian by Nadhif Seto Sanubari

A look at Latin American literature and the boundaries between truth and falsehood to illustrate the need for the chronicle as a literary resource.

A historical crime novel, "No. 10 Doyers Street" (March 2025) tells the story of a woman journalist from India who becomes embroiled in the case of a Chinatown gangster in 1900s New York City. The historical background is startlingly realistic.

In increasingly hostile times, voices that remind us why we fight are vital. Like that of María Lugones, who was mentor to our author, the Caribbean writer and anti-colonial thinker Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso.

A story from Quezon City, Philippines

A story from Germany and Namibia

A Zimbabwean story from Jo’burg, South Africa

A Lebanese-Canadian story - To Mona Ahmed Seif and Wafa Ali Mustafa

A short story from the USA

A short story from Egypt

A story from Tunisia