The Selected Works of Ameer Hamad

Cover Art: “Return Home,” © Ayşegül Şimşek

Current Issue: Fall 2023

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Charleen McClure’s d-sorientation is an exploration of space: the expansive empty inside humans and homes, the various rooms of the self, and how it feels to inhabit them. The selves she explores are alive and dying and dead, they are mosquitoes and mothers, and they are pressing their palms to the walls trying to map this space with their hands.

– Hannah Lui, October 2024

An Interview with the Directors of “Hind’s Hall”

Atish Saha: Our film is a performance piece as such. We’re taking this film from place to place in order to reignite the memories — and that’s what people have been telling us, that it has felt like they’re revisiting [that memory].

Junnie: As time has gone on, I think there hasn’t been as much remembrance in that sense, so [this is] a way of reminding people of what has happened.

Starving and unstoppable: Albert Abonado’s latest poetry collection, “Field Guide for Accidents,” traces the paths of a lost poet unraveling his identity and his grief. Abonado uses each of his poems as bread crumbs—leaving behind trails of blood, fruit peels, tongues, and prayers—as the reader attempts to find where these paths converge.

– Diego Carvajal Nuñez, November 2024