guernicamag.comadded August 2026
Guernicaby Nathalie Handal and Tina Chang23d ago
A question can be an invitation to step beyond the story others have assigned us. In this conversation, poets Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal turn that invitation toward each other.
Guernicaby Raaza Jamshed15 Jul 2026
Must a People Disappear for Us to Know That It Existed? The elegiac title of Ben Buckland and Carissa Western’s photo essay poses the question at the heart of Guernica’s July issue: Is our...
Guernicaby Andra Otilia Nicolescu15 Jul 2026
But first, everything anew. For them, the millennium came early. Early evening on the fifteenth of September 1998, America unfurled beneath steady seas of clouds beneath Paul and Ana’s eyes.
Guernicaby Herbert Girtley Jr.15 Jul 2026
Everyone round Hilton done heard tell of Bojack Rivers. Just like they’ve heard tell of that sharp buzz cut he’s always flauntin and those gold teeth and fancy rings he likes to wear on his...
Guernicaby Ben Buckland and Carissa Western15 Jul 2026
Text: Ben Buckland and Carissa Western Images: Ben Buckland The desert is green. Just a tinge—enough that you barely notice it at first and then you look again across the sand and it feels...
Guernicaby Mahreen Sohail15 Jul 2026
My son likes tomatoes, birds, dogs, cats, string cheese, the pedestrian wait signal at the traffic light. He says, “park” and “up” and “off”. He says “baahir” for outside and “ao” for come.
Guernicaby Tyler Barton and Kathy Engel15 Jul 2026
In November 1982—in the midst of Israel’s second invasion of Lebanon and on the heels of its massacre of thousands of Palestinians at Sabra and Shatila—Kathy Engel addressed an audience at the New...
Guernicaby Sharni Wilson, Masami Kakinuma, and Atsushigraph15 Jul 2026
Zashiki-warashi, a child spirit said to bring good fortune, roams a grandmother’s ancient home in rural Iwate.
Guernicaby John Wall Barger and Jérémie Guiguen15 Jun 2026
In him, another dialectic appears, trying to find expression; the contradiction of the terms yields in his eyes by the discovery of a third term, which is not a synthesis but a translation...
Guernicaby Jamie Guiney and Joe Oswald15 Jun 2026
Young Lad yawns under a cobwebbed bulb that may well have come from Noah’s Ark itself. As he runs water into two large bottles, screws on their caps, the old and jaundiced kitchen clock slogs...
Guernicaby Ali Hosseini15 Jun 2026
We’ve had plenty of arguments throughout our marriage—five years of it—but then there was the one about the cottage cheese.
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