I brought my lips to my calf and licked. I thought, only for a second, that I could taste the faint bitterness of daikon radish. The post Carrot Legs appeared first on Guernica.

In an era of climate change, everything feels strange. Even the places we call home. The post Starshift appeared first on Guernica.

Marie Wilcox is the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni, one of the roughly 130 endangered Native languages in the United States. This documentary follows her efforts to keep her mother tongue alive. The post SIMA Docs: Marie’s Dictionary appeared firs

For years afterward, Ming dreamt of riding the monkey’s roller coaster to the sun, and in some ways, she actually did. The post Ms. Ming’s Guide to Civilization appeared first on Guernica.

Environmental and personal fallout from the Fukushima disaster continues nearly a decade later. The post Everything We Do Not Know appeared first on Guernica.

J. David Bamberger turned his fried chicken fortune into an ecological experiment in the Texas Hill Country. The post American Folly, American Dream appeared first on Guernica.

If sex work were decriminalized, would Alisha Walker still have been charged with murder? The post Not the Perfect Victim appeared first on Guernica.

I seal myself in a coffin and pretend to be dead. That way death is a game of hide-and-seek and not a witness to the terror. The post My Turn appeared first on Guernica.

A female, feminist minister on the personal and political battle for reproductive rights in the South. The post Holy Love, Holy Rage appeared first on Guernica.

Eco-hardcore music, with its aggressive lyrics and antisocial performances, upended stereotypes of hippie environmentalists—today those visceral live performances match the sense of panic around environmental concerns. The post Anthems for the Anthro

What was she doing here on this mountain with this man, this writer who last year had been given an award for having written the worst sex scene in a book? The post Two Writers, Not Lovers, and Norwegian Butter appeared first on Guernica.

The author of “Trust Exercise” on her evolving narrative preoccupations and the radical contradictions of adolescence. The post Susan Choi: The Limitation of Perspective appeared first on Guernica.

How does the poem keep us there? in memory? in the traces? keep us coming back? The post Jasmine Fingers appeared first on Guernica.

The author returns to the landscape of her childhood to discover it has disappeared, along with many political dissidents. The post Bahrain on Horseback appeared first on Guernica.

The author of the Justice Hustlers series talks about writing at the nexus of consciousness raising and commercial fiction. The post Aya de Leon: Fiction of Empathy and Escapism appeared first on Guernica.

The poet discusses his relationship with the late Donald Hall and the power of art, incarnate. The post Back Draft: Martín Espada appeared first on Guernica.

The thing was, she had wished a thousand times for a different child. In moments of crisis, she wished passionately that he could be someone else, someone calmer, or more adaptable, or more like her. She hated herself for these wishes because he was

Michele Filgate, Nayomi Munaweera, and Sari Botton on a new anthology, What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About. The post Plumbing the Silences Between Mothers and Children appeared first on Guernica.

Reckoning with the history of a family that became white through conscious acts of assimilation and erasure. The post Parts of Us Not Made at Home appeared first on Guernica.

After narrowly escaping a violent abduction, Linda Loaiza López has become an activist against gender-based violence. The post Kidnapped, Tortured, and Navigating an Indifferent Court System appeared first on Guernica.

Off-shore, Poseidon built a full-scale replica Greek ship, gold, with life-size gold sailors. The post The Trojan War Museum appeared first on Guernica.

“To label this kind of trauma as ‘post-traumatic stress disorder’ is perhaps a little dangerous, because there's nothing ‘post’ about it.” The post Alex Kotlowitz: Violence and Resilience in Chicago appeared first on Guernica.

I watched my skin split, tender and pliant as fruit. The post Blood Oranges appeared first on Guernica.

An encounter with refugees and the legal system of Greece The post Small Problem appeared first on Guernica.

A new collection of Bette Howland's short stories restores a powerful voice to the canon. The post Their Daughters Were Having Cats Instead of Children appeared first on Guernica.

The writer discusses why motherhood lends itself perfectly for speculative fiction—and the album that helped her during writing and labor. The post Helen Phillips: “Living with the awareness of the abyss is probably a good thing.” appeared first on

Peter was twelve when Jackie Morris moved out of our apartment building, never to be seen again. Would I say he molested Peter? Do I mean he was a molester? The post This Lousy Heart appeared first on Guernica.

The author discusses the limits of identity, the power of ownership, and the narrative beauty of math. The post Catherine Chung: The Vast and the Intricate appeared first on Guernica.

Living in the shadow of Utah’s next big earthquake. The post Before the Shaking Starts appeared first on Guernica.

From the moment I met my son, blue as a cave troll, coated in vernix, gasping in the new air, my mission became to not undo all he was born with. The post Stay and Fight appeared first on Guernica.