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2024

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Contents

Editor’s NoteFictionEssaysPoetryConversationsReviewsBlogTo Never Have Risked Our Lives: A Portfolio of Central American and Mexican Diaspora Writing

Editor’s Note

The Launch of AGNI 100
by agnimag
The Launch of AGNI 99
by agnimag

Fiction

Hut
by Lauren Foley
Amber
by Miha Mazzini
Translated from the Slovene by Gregor Timothy Čeh
Sea State
by Niall McArdle

Essays

On Sticks, Straws, and Lanterns: Reading Radwa Ashour in an Egyptian Prison
by Abdelrahman ElGendy
War Diary
by Nahil Mohana
Translated from the Arabic by Respond Crisis Translation

Poetry

From the Bones of a Bombed-Out Cathedral
by Malachi Black
From the Book of the Left Behind
by Sophie Cabot Black
Throwing Salt at My Mother
by George Kalamaras
My Brother
by Paisley Rekdal
Ars Poetica
by Issam Zineh

Conversations

The Correspondent’s Cheeks Are as a Bed of Spices
by Rachel Edelman and emet ezell

Reviews

Hauling Up, Weighing Out
by Sven Birkerts
Removing the Me from the We of Them: A Letter to Fady Joudah
by Abdelrahman ElGendy
Waiting For a Ghost: On Juan Cárdenas’s The Devil of the Provinces
by Gillian Esquivia-Cohen
“There Are Eyes Everywhere”: A Review of Oracle Smoke Machine
by Arielle Kaplan
Eleni Kefala’s Time Stitches: Threading Muted Voices into Our Record of the Past
by Suzana Vuljevic

Blog

Giraffe Angel
by Mara Naselli
Gretel and the Great War and Stringing Stories into a Novel
by Ben Roth
Me and Juan Rulfo Down by the Train Yard
by Alberto Reyes Morgan
Poetry at the Border of Language
by Magdalena Arias Vásquez
Sea-Change
by Angelo Mao
Some Thoughts on Tree Books
by Benjamin Swett
The Writing Lives of Roe v. Wade
by agnimag
You’re Not Funny: On Writing a Comic Novel
by Lee Upton

To Never Have Risked Our Lives: A Portfolio of Central American and Mexican Diaspora Writing

Poetry
A Book
by Humberto Ak'abal
Translated from the Spanish by Michael Bazzett
I Don’t Know . . .
by Humberto Ak'abal
Translated from the Spanish by Michael Bazzett
The Rain
by Humberto Ak'abal
Translated from the Spanish by Michael Bazzett
Disarticulated Map
by Rodney Gómez
Self-Portrait as Desert
by Rodney Gómez
What Femicide
by Rodney Gómez
When My Mother Gives Up Her American Dream to Marry My Father
by Darrel Alejandro Holnes
When the Narcos Kidnap JuanFe
by Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Dying Tejano
by Sebastián H. Páramo
American Dirt
by Isaac Salazar
Undulations
by Felicia Zamora
Conversations
Locating Family: A Conversation with Guatemalan Adoptee Maria Hintze
by Jennifer De Leon
Prevailing over Succeeding: A Conversation with Willy Barreno
by Jennifer De Leon
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