May 19, 2026
Postmortem—An Excerpt from The Skin and Its Girl
by Sarah Cypher
“Postmortem,” an excerpt from Sarah Cypher’s novel The Skin and Its Girl, invites the reader into a mindset where departures from realism enable new linguistic maneuvers, such as subverting calcified stereotypes of Arabs and Arabic speakers in American supremacist culture.
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May 19, 2026
Wahmi—An Excerpt from Conjoined States
by Key K. Bird
An inventive, familial relationship with language is part of “Wahmi,” an excerpt from Key K. Bird’s in-progress novel, Conjoined States. Bird situates us in the prose: “I didn’t know how deeply cultural my family’s usage was, the oaths and the swearing alike, until I started to read fiction by Arab writers.”
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February 24, 2026
THE HUNGERING YEARS—An Excerpt
by Summer Farah
Etel, if I had known you in life instead of art I know we would have found places to disagree, but of one thing I am sure—we mourn together. We ask each other to live.
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