Guernica – A Magazine of Global Arts & Politics (original) (raw)

Moving Forward

On Joanna Chen’s essay, it’s retraction, and _Guernica_’s new publisher.

Arrivals and Departures

“The year I found my own independence was the year they finally gained the right to go — and to stay — home.”

Assorted alcohol bottles in a bar

Black and white image of shadows of a window pane and a hand reaching outward.

The Glove

from Laura McNeal’s new novel, The Swan's Nest

white and pink abstract brushstrokes

Glaze

From afar, I was seen practicing / agony.

Black and white photograph of a silhouetted bird on the shore before an ocean In the distance, a boardwalk extends into the ocean.

A photo of dry ice fog on water.

The Noise

died so I looked online / and couldn’t believe the price

The Chicken Line

What had these poor half-beasts done, besides exist in an ever-changing world that didn’t want to understand them?

From the Archives

image of a total solar eclipse

Threshold

He felt endangered by the solitude, even at risk of vanishing.

Silhouette of a crowd of people wielding swords against a fiery background, as if to suggest war.

Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time, there was a lord who lit / Fire to his castle

A fly sits on edge of a white flower's petal against a blurry green background.

Kingdom

The movement of a fly becomes a rational thought / there are boys and then there are boys

Photograph of the inside of Ristretto Coffee Lab in Gaza. Picture taken by Emad El Byed.

Sketch of an olive tree

Sunset from the window of a plane

Come Stay

My family is mouths spread wide like wounds, telling everything but the story that must be told.

Books and manuscripts stacked on a shelf in an archive, with an aisle of boxes visible in the background

I, Ghost

The West doesn’t give a shit about me.