Guernica – A Magazine of Global Arts & Politics

Over the last two decades, Guernica has gifted us—writers, readers and engaged thinkers—space to see ourselves more fully—through the imaginations, experiences and reflections of folks who often serve as fodder for gripping news headlines, but who aren...

Guernica magazine was founded twenty years ago with a mission to confront power with counter narrative. A literary space of dissent that, in the words of George Saunders, “respects the life of the mind with an intensity rarely seen these days,” Guernica...

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It’s hard to imagine introducing this issue by starting anywhere other than the four-line poem “Glaze,” by Isra Hassan. It chronicles, essentially, the fall — the leap? — of a glaze into the fire that will transform it. But that question haunts far past...

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We were the three of us in bed together, the Palm Tree Wholesaler and the Division-I High Jumper and me. The High Jumper slept in the middle and on his side, his back facing me and his left leg thrown over the legs of the Palm Tree Wholesaler, who released...