Like a classic noir narrative in which morality blurs and truth is slippery, the world today feels increasingly absurd and nihilistic.
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TMR’s Literary Editor reflects on what created the Anthropocene—capitalism, colonialism, ecocide—and the possibility of undoing it.
04 SEPTEMBER, 2026 • By Abdelrahman ElGendy
These poems collapse the boundaries between human and nonhuman life to what remains of a species that imagines itself all-powerful.
04 SEPTEMBER, 2026 • By Umniya Najaer
A writer reimagines the Anthropocene through Palestine’s land, where the elements rise in an elemental intifada against settler colonialism.
04 SEPTEMBER, 2026 • By Sherena Razek
A new collection folds grief, displacement, and colonial violence into meditations on the personal and political, the human and animal.
04 SEPTEMBER, 2026 • By George Abraham
In this haunting work of speculative fiction, a former greengrocer's quiet rituals are interrupted by a devastating act of state violence.
04 SEPTEMBER, 2026 • By Balsam Karam, Saskia Vogel
The human will toward life meets the inhuman algorithms hunting people down like prey in Israel's ravaging of Lebanon.
04 SEPTEMBER, 2026 • By Cynthia KreichatiThis SWANA-specific reading list includes works centered on changing landscapes, environmental crisis, displacement, and resistance.
04 SEPTEMBER, 2026 • By Rana Asfour
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?
04 SEPTEMBER, 2026 • By lisa minerva luxx
In this speculative work, a group of "wardens" searching among fossils and bones discovers what the state failed to eradicate.
04 SEPTEMBER, 2026 • By Sema Kaygusuz, Nicholas Glastonbury
This exclusive translated excerpt blends realism and the surreal against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Sudan.
04 SEPTEMBER, 2026 • By Hamed Al-Nazir, Rana Asfour
An exhibition of Palestinian artists highlights violent environmental imaginaries and the problematic symbolism of resilience.
04 SEPTEMBER, 2026 • By Silvia Hassouna
Nasser's work considers witnessing without testimony, the persistence of memory, and art’s possibilities in the face of loss.
04 SEPTEMBER, 2026 • By Samira Makki
