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This body, your body, is always ready — for love, for affection, for pleasure, for decadent songs of praise.

I don’t mean to hate the sparrows.

The sociologist speaks on owning her authority, taking black women seriously, and how she shaped her trenchant new essay collection, Thick

For centuries, national mythology has emphasized rural America’s supposed masculinity. It has caused incalculable damage.

It was the winter of manatees, Captain / Rhonda and her chartered pontoon boat / floating down the Crystal River.

It’s my job to find the dead, / chauffeur them back to their plots.

Violence is a failure of communication. / The shoulder severed from the dream / of the socket.

Forgive me, I did not mean to copy your life.

The journalist discusses her new book on the history and nature of white supremacy in the digital age.

The queen of science fiction on war, the problem with literary realism and learning to write as a woman.

Towards a collective, lyric

The poet and sociologist’s gleefully unorthodox work on blackness.

The poet discusses the fallouts of writing a memoir, making her way back to poetry, and the loss of David Bowie.

Guernica regrets having published this piece, and has retracted it. A more fulsome explanation will follow.

The critically acclaimed poet on taking risks, accepting grace, and holding the world’s pain.

Each poem rewrites racism with magic.

Together with the editorial board, Ms. Moore is

Violence against women is rampant, systemic, and all about control.

South Korean poet on subverting expectations, her use of grotesque language, and the state of feminism in Korea.

In this episode of A Phone Call from Paul, Paul Holdengraber talks to American journalist and author Susan Orlean. The two discuss the smell of books (also known as, bibliosmia), Fahrenheit 451, an…

The writer and poet talks about novelistic nonfiction and why he thinks of his grandparents as monuments.

Please join Guernica for an evening celebrating the work, advocacy, and literary contributions of Alexander Chee.

A philosopher rethinks what’s keeping women down.

The sociologist speaks on owning her authority, taking black women seriously, and how she shaped her trenchant new essay collection, Thick

A Magazine of Art & Politics

The power and danger of women who take up space.

What the heart wants? The heart wants / her horses back.

Officially, B.A. Ehikhamenor was an uneducated farmer. Privately, he was a devoted scribe, a relentless keeper of records and photographs that preserve intimate memories of Nigeria’s tumultuous...

Photographer Fatimah Hossaini spent three years trying to upend Western narratives about women in her country. She didn't get to finish her work.

The memoirist on the politicization of children, Salvadoran slang, and repressed trauma.

I had been afraid to ask where there was.

As the climate crisis intensifies, try this simple exercise: count how many animals you can’t see.

We thought keeping secrets made us powerful. That’s when the handyman found us.

The author discusses the refugee crisis, US foreign policy, and the problem of ‘narrative scarcity’ for marginalized and minority populations.

Each poem rewrites racism with magic.

On Dirt, a special issue of Guernica

The journalist discusses her new book on the history and nature of white supremacy in the digital age.

The writer on intimate partner violence and the forces that made it a hard story to tell.

Remembering an American girlhood.

I used to meet him at the coffee shop, / the one in Remal

The writer and poet talks about novelistic nonfiction and why he thinks of his grandparents as monuments.

Female Fighters series: The activist-scholar talks about black women and militancy, and whether guns have a place in struggles for liberation.

Books | Judges | Rules and Submission Guidelines | Contact Us 2024 – John Liles, Bees, and after Armantrout says: “The poems in Bees, and after are dense, sonically gorgeous studies of various...

The author and public intellectual on his sermon to white America.

Our mother was a tiny stone, thrown around by something beyond her. Grandma was water, flowing to where it wanted, as it wanted, when it wanted.

A philosopher rethinks what’s keeping women down.

The writer and poet talks about novelistic nonfiction and why he thinks of his grandparents as monuments.

What would it take you, personally, to deny water to someone dying of thirst?

The case for hope, continued.

I just want a version of the occult that isn’t built on plunder, but I suspect that if we could excise the stolen pieces, there would be nothing left.

The 2013 National Book Award Finalist on magical thinking, never breaking a vow, and why she wants her poems “to have long legs.”

The journalist discusses her new book on the history and nature of white supremacy in the digital age.

Our September issue

The power and danger of women who take up space.

The feminist scholar on bridging theory and ordinary life, and the pervasive myth that feminism originated in white culture.

She’d cried because she had expected it to be awful, and it hadn’t been. But she felt embarrassed about the kiss, and she’d asked Sigrid if she could just lie there next to her, if it was all right...

On which stories are whose to tell.

In the battle for hockey’s future, it's a question of #grit vs. Gritty.

The 2022 Guernica Benefit honoree on the importance of building literary community

A Magazine of Art & Politics

The poet and sociologist’s gleefully unorthodox work on blackness.