Image: Yasmeen Abdullah, “The Butterfly Effect.” By arrangement with the artist.
Aperture: Sudanese Female Novelists Coming into Focus
Is there some sort of double marginalization at play?
At the Coffee Shop
This man must be high on something, I thought.
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Freedom of Flight
She is a woman I have watched for many years, and for as many years she has been unaware of me.
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Al-Nar Street
Women are forbidden from setting foot in the swamp.
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Basma’s Dream
She hovers overhead, aimless, surrendering herself to fate.
The Birth of the Spirit
I didn’t go to the dorms as I had planned; my feet led me to the river.
Book Reviews
As American as Immigration: Małgorzata Szejnert Brings to Life the Many Stories of Ellis Island
Reviewed by Mauricio Ruiz
Drawing on unpublished letters and journals, the Polish journalist always keeps an eye on revealing details in her new book "Ellis Island: A People's History," the result of extensive research into the manifold trajectories of those who set foot on a new continent and helped forge the modern US.
A Bereaved Soldier Looks for Revenge in David Diop’s Disturbing ‘At Night All Blood is Black’
Reviewed by Martha Anne Toll
Via a forceful monologue, Diop's novel creates a tale of revenge with biblical overtones as it looks at the relatively little-known story of Senegalese riflemen fighting in the French army in the First World War.