Broadsides

On Gaza’s beach, a young girl kneels beside a sand turtle she shaped with her hands and decorated with seashells. All photographs by Shams Mazen Rajab. Every day, thousands of children wake in tents instead of homes, stand in lines for water instead of classrooms. Play has become a rare luxury, and . . .

Editor’s note: When invited to participate in our interview series, Mathew Magro-Fry (author of “The Missing Pieces” from our Summer 2026 issue) offered to write a creative nonfiction piece on the relationship between roadtrips and his writing process: Just off the freeway between Palm Springs and San Bernardino, a Brontosaurus and a . . .

Review of Corinne Demas’s novel Daughters (Little A, New York, 2025) Yes, you can go home again, but you might revert to the same person you were when you first decided to leave. Corinne Demas’s novel Daughters is a compelling examination of a daughter’s long-held resentment and fear of disappointing a parent, . . .