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A literary magazine named after the Vedic god of fire
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2025

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Contents
Editor’s NoteFictionEssaysPoetryReviewsBlog

Editor’s Note

Keeping AGNI Whole
by agnimag
The Launch of AGNI 101
by agnimag

Fiction

Hardest
by Philip James Shaw

Essays

Details of a War: Gaza, October 2024 - February 2025
by Nahil Mohana
Translated by Katharine Halls

Poetry

there in the torpor
by Louis-Philippe Dalembert
Translated from the French by Aidan Rooney
Love the Animals
by Khadijah Queen
Chant of Immediate Threats
by Mai Der Vang
Node: When in the end
by Mai Der Vang

Reviews

Placenta-Book: On Água Viva by Clarice Lispector
by Patrick Autréaux
Translated from the French by Tobias Ryan
Do Not Despair: On Marie Howe’s New and Selected Poems
by Askold Melnyczuk
Ledia Xhoga’s Misinterpretation: A Guide to the Intimacy of Language and Translation
by Suzana Vuljevic

Blog

Bone-Tongued
by Nina Murray
I Think I Jumped a Timeline To Wake You Up
by Rosebud Ben-Oni
On Translation, Bilingualism, and Squid Game
by Slava Faybysh
Once I Thought I Could Save People
by Jen Siraganian
Pause—Don’t Look Away
by janan alexandra
Self-Portrait with Blade of Grass
by David Hernandez
Talking Trash
by Nicole Cooley
The Consolation of Byron
by Margaret Everton
Topographies of the Silk Roads
by M. Cynthia Cheung
What Remains To Be Said
by Yahia Lababidi
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