TMR 61
ANTHROPOCENE
- TMR 61
- Editorial
Why Anthropocene?
TMR’s Literary Editor reflects on what created the Anthropocene—capitalism, colonialism, ecocide—and the possibility of undoing it.
- TMR 61
- Centerpiece
Hunter, Trickster, Gatherer
The human will toward life meets the inhuman algorithms hunting people down like prey in Israel's ravaging of Lebanon.
4 September 2026 • By Cynthia Kreichati- TMR 61
- Featured Artist
Monira Al Qadiri’s Relics of the Future
A self-described “dystopian artist” creates works that seek to tell stories about our modern condition from a future point of view.
4 September 2026 • By Nour AnnanMORE FROM THIS ISSUE
“The Long Middle”—a short story
This unsettling short story set in an entirely possible future asks: what would make you turn back in a revolution that must never stop moving?
4 SEPTEMBER 2026 • BY LISA MINERVA LUXX
Elemental Intifada: How Palestine Unmakes the Anthropocene
A writer reimagines the Anthropocene through Palestine’s land, where the elements rise in an elemental intifada against settler colonialism.
4 SEPTEMBER 2026 • BY SHERENA RAZEK
INHUMAN RESOURCES—selected poems
A poet examines how war and militarization become embedded in the routines and infrastructures of everyday life.
4 SEPTEMBER 2026 • BY MAYA SALAMEH
What the Stones Remember: A Conversation with Dala Nasser
Nasser's body of work considers witnessing without testimony, the persistence of memory, and art’s possibilities in the face of loss.
4 SEPTEMBER 2026 • BY SAMIRA MAKKI
The Last Barbary Lion
Haunted by the photograph of a Barbary lion, a writer searches for the landscapes, histories, and memories that might make a home.
4 SEPTEMBER 2026 • BY NOAM KEIM
“Wardens of the World”—an excerpt from Pure Beast
In this speculative work, a group of "wardens" searching among fossils and bones discovers what the state failed to eradicate.
4 SEPTEMBER 2026 • BY SEMA KAYGUSUZ
Weeds of the Anthropocene: A View from Palestine
An exhibition of Palestinian artists highlights violent environmental imaginaries and the problematic symbolism of resilience.
4 SEPTEMBER 2026 • BY SILVIA HASSOUNA
Poems from When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America
A new collection folds grief, displacement, and colonial violence into meditations on the personal and political, the human and animal.
4 SEPTEMBER 2026 • BY GEORGE ABRAHAM
The Lemon Tree Family—an excerpt
This exclusive translated excerpt blends realism and the surreal against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Sudan.
4 SEPTEMBER 2026 • BY HAMED AL-NAZIR
“The Belt Starter”—a short story
On a morning dive off the coast of Aqaba, a father and daughter confront the reef and their relationship, both changed by time.
4 SEPTEMBER 2026 • BY NOUR SHTAYYEH
The Ossuary of Evolving Forms—selected poems
These selected poems collapse the boundaries between human and nonhuman life to what remains of a species that imagines itself all-powerful.
4 SEPTEMBER 2026 • BY UMNIYA NAJAER
Event Horizon—an excerpt
In this haunting work of speculative fiction, a former greengrocer's quiet rituals are interrupted by a devastating act of state violence.
4 SEPTEMBER 2026 • BY BALSAM KARAM