Guernica

Guernicaby Raaza Jamshed·15 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...

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79%plop score, above 79 percent of recent articles

Guernicaby Andra Otilia Nicolescu·15 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.

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85%plop score, above 85 percent of recent articles

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...

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24%plop score, above 24 percent of recent articles

Guernicaby Ben Buckland and Carissa Western·15 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...

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89%plop score, above 89 percent of recent articles

Guernicaby Mahreen Sohail·15 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.

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61%plop score, above 61 percent of recent articles

Guernicaby Tyler Barton and Kathy Engel·15 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...

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38%plop score, above 38 percent of recent articles

Guernicaby Sharni Wilson, Masami Kakinuma, and Atsushigraph·15 Jul 2026

Zashiki-warashi, a child spirit said to bring good fortune, roams a grandmother’s ancient home in rural Iwate.

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64%plop score, above 64 percent of recent articles

Guernicaby Denoo Edinam Yawo·15 Jul 2026

When a bullet leaves the mouth of a shark into the belly of my mother, it renders the skin away from fat, teachers her to rent space in my body for secrets. “Don’t you know,” it says.

Guernicaby Anna T. Szabó, Ági Bori, and Melissa Monroe·15 Jul 2026

Her five children, with one kitchen knife. Later on, she blamed it on her husband. Her husband, he was not empathetic that she did everything alone.

Guernicaby Anna T. Szabó, Ági Bori, and Melissa Monroe·15 Jul 2026

He ties the strap on his left hand, as he had seen his grandfather do it during his childhood, then puts the knocked-down lamp back in its place, covers up his dead wife with fastidious care, and...

Guernicaby Michelle Matthees·15 Jul 2026

–Long after Bukharin’s execution, the fox ran the Kremlin’s grounds. Your toys are given away, and you are left with nothing to do but think. You sit on your father’s lap.

Guernicaby Michelle Matthees·15 Jul 2026

Your mother, Ekaterina Gadze, wanted you to become a priest. Your father drank, clubbed away at shoes in the basement.

Guernicaby Hussain Ahmed·15 Jun 2026

I insured my grief and the inherited hatchets. I want them buried for a century, at least. I jiggled beads around a gourd that couldn’t hold wine, to remind everyone of my oaths to love this...

Guernicaby Ben Cooper·15 Jun 2026

It’s a simple scene. The man and woman sit across from each other in silence. He’s already reached for the peach, weighed the summer soft skin in his palm.

Guernicaby John Wall Barger and Jérémie Guiguen·15 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...

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87%plop score, above 87 percent of recent articles

Guernicaby Jamie Guiney and Joe Oswald·15 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...

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72%plop score, above 72 percent of recent articles

Guernicaby Ali Hosseini·15 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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66%plop score, above 66 percent of recent articles

Guernicaby Ben Cooper and Erik Hadife·15 Jun 2026

–George Armwood, lynched in Princess Anne, 1933 Someone had to see the beautiful darkness of night passing in silence overhead and still reach for the rope.

Guernicaby Sarah Brockhaus and Emilia Rinaldini·15 Jun 2026

You tell me it began with the word mine. Once you give a name to something it starts to be. After we’d made mine it was easy for words like us and them to follow.

Guernicaby Sarah Brockhaus·15 Jun 2026

It almost always started with women. It was about covering, something like forming a home out of dirt, an ash-body. Maybe it was a mask or medicine, or just desire tucked into ritual.