Adi Magazine

02/09/2025

"That was the first lesson the state taught us: that worth could be sliced between two identical bodies."

Sharon Aruparayil's story "The Year My Sister Became a Border" is published today on the Adi site, with artwork by Kaya Joan!

Read this stunning piece of short fiction here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/the-year-my-sister-became-a-border/

26/08/2025

"At the bitter door of no return,
the life of every locked door was thrown open wide."

New poetry today on the Adi website: Luisa Villa Meriño's stunning landays, translated by Kim Jensen! Artwork by Larissa Ribeiro.

Read here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/a-dark-stain-on-the-house-fifteen-landays/

19/08/2025

"Don’t live on the defense! Offend! Why would I be worried about what the white minority is thinking or reading in their comfort zone?"

Out today: a new interview with Mónica Ramón Ríos & Giannina Braschi on Braschi's book PUTINOIKA (FlowerSong Press)!

Read the full interview: https://adimagazine.com/articles/a-choral-response-to-disaster-monica-ramon-rios-interviews-giannina-braschi-on-putinoika/

12/08/2025

"With great prosperity came great suffering in NATION. People were either born into prosperity or suffering, and sometimes in between. The people who prospered, protected their wealth, and the people who suffered, pined."

Part myth, part personal narrative, part poem, "Read Me in Atmosphere" by Melina Casados is live on the website today! Art by Larissa Ribeiro.

Read here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/read-me-in-atmosphere/

05/08/2025

"I never expected to search for a “female-friendly shotgun.” Or to end up matching with a Mossberg Maverick 88: a $300, 12-gauge, pump-action made in Texas, just like me. Then again, I never expected America to get this spooky."

Read Keli Dailey's fiery essay "Love Song of the Liberal Gun Owner," paired with artwork by the incredible Candice Evers.

https://adimagazine.com/articles/love-song-of-the-liberal-gun-owner/

29/07/2025

"Star is my name. Something quiet but also an incandescence. I like that word: its sound lingers like embers floating up to the night sky."

Gabriela Jauregui's haunting short story "Citlalli" is out today from Adi!

Read the full piece here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/citlalli/

25/07/2025

"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers. And somewhere, always, there is an audience asking how this story ends. But for those of us living it, there is no ending—only the slow receding of possibility with each day of silence."

Sharing Alaa Alqaisi's Adi essay "Beneath the Howl of Hunger," published just four days ago in Arab Lit. Let Gaza eat. Let Gaza live.

https://arablit.org/2025/07/21/beneath-the-howl-of-hunger/

Alaa's essay for Adi: https://adimagazine.com/articles/the-double-life-of-a-palestinian-translator-a-bridge-between-wounds-and-words/

“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi

22/07/2025

"i
betrays you
you comedy
fool you
greying
ghost—"

There's a new poem by Dior J. Stephens out today at Adi!

Read it here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/222-or-asyndetic/

15/07/2025

Adi's first graphic essay "Tiny T" by the wonderful Nasrin Sheykhi is out today on the website! Check out this essay on Nasrin's fraught immigration to the US and her subsequent "Tiny Trump" portrait.

Read here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/tiny-t/

08/07/2025

"The Palestinian translator clings to the belief that as long as the words remain, the names are spoken, and the poems are recited, then Gaza has not been erased. Yet the fear remains: Is the world willing to hear, or are we only speaking into an echo chamber of grief?"

Read Alaa Alqaisi's devastating essay, "The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator," out today from Adi. Art by Larissa Ribeiro.

https://adimagazine.com/articles/the-double-life-of-a-palestinian-translator-a-bridge-between-wounds-and-words/

01/07/2025

Today we are pleased to share an excerpt entitled "Experimental Architecture" from Daniela Catrileo's forthcoming book CHILCO, translated by Jacob Edelstein!

From the publisher: In CHILCO, Daniela Catrileo’s baroque, tropical jeremiad, the wounds of capitalism and empire inflict themselves on the person and on the land, but linger most devastatingly in language and memory. Indigenous Mapudungun and Quechua words, history, and cosmology form the chorus to this tropical fever dream of life, love, death, and friendship. Out 7/15/25 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Read "Experimental Architecture" here:
https://adimagazine.com/articles/experimental-architecture

Art by Kaya Joan.