200 pages.

In this issue:

The Inter/Transnational Issue

“Afternoons” by Buku Sarkar: “If they were in Calcutta, hidden underneath the black shadows of trees by the river—the police would have picked them up. But here, no one else seemed to stare or make a comment.”

“Carl” by Ane Nydal: A correspondent unspools why an American who has left his life behind is whiling his days in a Jerusalem hotel.

“The Dusk Market” by ‘Pemi Aguda: “You don’t see the dusk market if you are not invited to the dusk market, but there are slippery moments, slits, frissons. It is when this happens that the children see hopping heads or winking herons …”

“The Past Self That Puzzles, the Present Self That Unravels” by Dean Rader: The 1999 slayings of an Australian missionary and two of his young children leave haunting and personal questions of what—or whom—precipitated their killings.

“The Secret Garden” by Pilar Quintana: “Rather than pour a glass of water, she grabs the pint of cane liquor. Unscrews the cap. Before taking a drink, Rosa realizes she didn’t need it in the Secret Garden. … This astounds her.”

Plus fiction and nonfiction by Gabriela Alemán, Chiara Barzini, Dagoberto Gilb, Shelby Kinney-Lang, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, and Karen Tei Yamashita.

In Conversation
Sophie Lewis and Julia Sanches on their vocation and its many rewards and challenges: “I once heard, or maybe read, a translator say that she is never not translating.”

Poetry
C.J.A., Sergey Gandlevsky, Shuri Kido, and Pablo Medina

Art
And featuring the art of Sonny Assu