Photo: The keys to our house that was destroyed in Northern Gaza. Courtesy of the author. When I was ten years old, I was studying at the Beach Elementary School in Gaza. My teacher, Rahma, asked us to write about our original villages. “Go home,” she told us, “and ask your grandparents . . .
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Review of Lorraine Boissoneault’s Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene (Beacon Books, 2026) Living with disability, particularly disability that results from a chronic illness, can and often does feel a bit like being trapped in a sudden storm, a hurricane or a tornado, perhaps a blizzard. Some form of . . .
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The brewery, brewing, the malt, the vats, every thing that is doneby brewers, wine-makers, vinegar-makers,Leather-dressing, coach-making, boiler-making, rope-twisting, dis-tilling, sign-painting, lime-burning . . .—Walt Whitman, “A Song for Occupations” To the memory of Henry Bradshaw: foreman, craftsman, grandfather With my Granddad I shared my first beer;It was lager and yellowish clear.We had . . .
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Editor’s note: The following text is an edited transcription of a longer conversation conducted over Zoom, available in full below. Joan Cambridge-Mayfield reads “Guava Season in Exxon Guyana’s Cash-Grant Line” (Volume 67, issue 2) from 39:38–41:50, and Jeremy Jacob Peretz reads Grace Nichols’s “Blackout” (Volume 35, issue 3/4) from 43:50– 46:11. Tell . . .
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Editor’s note: The text here is an edited transcription of a larger conversation conducted over Zoom, which appears in full below. Waters reads her poem “—And Also Sex” (Volume 67, issue 2) from 11:40–13:19. Tell us about yourself and your relationship to writing. What do you normally write about? What do I . . .
Read More“The only possibility of regaining one’s balance is to face the whole problem, for all these discoveries, all these inquiries lead only in one direction: to make man admit that he is nothing, absolutely nothing—and that he must put an end to the narcissism on which he relies in order to imagine . . .
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Tell us about your relationship to writing: How it began, and where it’s headed. I’m going to be very literal about this because this is a big question. For me writing started in kindergarten. We had a great teacher—we called her “Lupita”—who taught us how to read and write with the poetry . . .
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Editor’s note: The text here is an edited transcription of a larger conversation conducted over Zoom, which appears in full below. Melpignano reads her translations of Leonardo Tonini’s poems “6.” from [25:52 – 26:27] and “12.” from [28:16 – 28:40]. Music credit to Nicholaas Stulting, “Everyday.” Introduce yourself, your relationship to writing . . .
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Congratulations to Amanda Sarasien and Elton Uliana, winners of our annual Chametzky Prize for their translation of José Luís Peixoto’s “The Woman Who Dreamed”! This story appeared in our Summer 2025 issue, and was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize. You can read their joint 10 Questions interview from last year here. . . .
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Who have been the most influential writers in your life? The most influential stories/collections? What’s been inspiring you lately?Lately, I have been running more consistently. This is really my cordoned off time, where all I have are my body, my thoughts, and no obligations to others. After graduate school when I began . . .
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