Issue 9: Winter/Spring 2024

From the Editor

“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