Issue 9: Winter/Spring 2024

From the Editor

Life After Kafka

by Magdaléna Platzová, Alex Zucker

The Suspension of Disbelief: A Conversation Between Magdaléna Platzová and Alex Zucker

by Alex Zucker, Magdaléna Platzová

“Notes on the Confessional Style,” “Memorial Day”

by Benjamin Bartu

Essays/Nonfiction

Yes, It’s Pretty to Think So

by Rae Wolfe

Eye of the Beholder

Objects in the Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear

by Jared Joseph

Essays/Nonfiction

Sugar in the Gourd

by Jordan Smith

Pasha Palace: A Beauty of the Old City

by Rawan Jawad Ouda

“Horses Impasto,” “Breath Bluff,” and “The Gauntlet”

by Hans F. Wagner

O Lord, Guide Me Through Darkness

by Haya Abu Nasser

Surviving Beneath Gaza’s Tempest Skies

by Haya Abu Nasser

“I Hate the Subject and the Subject Hates Me”: An Interview with Susannah Breslin

by Seth Fischer

Provisions, Pots, and Firewood: Feeding Our Neighbors in Gaza

by Mustafa D. Batnain

It’s a Rainy Day in My Normal Life

by Habiba Masoud

I Wish I Were Born a Mermaid

by Ola AlAsi

Amani and Riham Palestinian Women Take Charge

by Lubna Abdelwahab Abuhashem

Samay

by MariNaomi

Entangled

by Roaa Aladdin Missmeh

Messages of Concern: An Introduction

by Sarah Jacobus

“Miroslav Tichý,” “Miroslav Tichý, Untitled,” “The Subject Covers Her Face”

by Alisha Dietzman

Gramercy Park is Closed to the Public

by Toni Ann Johnson

Essays/Nonfiction

Suzanne Somers’s Eggplant Cookbook

by Brian Bouldrey

Public Enemy

by Boris Dralyuk

The Drunken Rabbit

by Jessica Elisheva Emerson

“Holy Translators,” “Mirror”

by Armen Davoudian

The Chowdhury Distinguished Speakers Series: Maxine Hong Kingston in Conversation with David L. Ulin

by Maxine Hong Kingston, David L. Ulin

Air/Light is published quarterly in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California.

The Chowdhury Prize in Literature is an annual international mid-career prize for writers.