Adi Magazine

01/09/2026

"I am sad / to the point where sadness can go no further—/not a single drop left."

New poetry in translation today from Maya abu al-Hayyat, trans. by Badar Salem.

Read "She Painted My Nails Red as I Wept" here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/she-painted-my-nails-red-as-i-wept/

27/08/2026

"I wondered if this, too, was a kind of discipline—the quieting of rage, the smoothing over of rupture, the transformation of political grief into something private, manageable, and mute."

The latest Again column is out today! Returning contributor Liane Al Ghusain shares why she returns to PHYSICIANS OF THE HEART again.

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I write this while my toddler naps, splayed out innocently in deep sleep. We were playing outside when we heard the explosion. Missiles intercepted in the

26/08/2026

Adi is hiring a part time nonfiction editor! Check out our listing on Submittable and apply to work with our team.

https://adimagazine.submittable.com/submit

25/08/2026

"What is yours to eat? What is yours to cultivate? What is yours to burn to make room for new growth?" Experience "Cosmic Anarchy" by Malachi Lily, Adi's latest graphic essay!

18/08/2026

"Even when you’re writing about something happening in the present, there’s always a historical thread behind it."

Cindy Julia Tobing interviews Leila S. Chudori, author of THE SEA SPEAKS HIS NAME (Laut Bercerita) on unresolved grief and collective memory in Indonesia.

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In the months leading up to President Soeharto’s resignation in May 1998 after more than three decades of authoritarian rule, Indonesia was gripped by a

11/08/2026

We're thrilled to share two poems excerpted from heidi andrea restrepo rhodes' AMPERSAND ORGAN, which is out today from Milkweed Editions! Art by Jinhwa Jang.

Run don't walk to the link below to read these two poems, and check out the Milkweed page for info on how to get your copy of AMPERSAND ORGAN!

https://adimagazine.com/articles/two-poems-3/

04/08/2026

"It’s a general rule of the world that things flow downwards."

We're back on our regular publishing schedule with Shigraf Zahbi's short story "Release," accompanied with art by Larissa Ribeiro!

READ: https://adimagazine.com/articles/release/

28/07/2026

It's almost time for another Again Book Club, this time featuring Ally Ang in conversation with Ladan Osman about BLUEST N**E by Ama Codjoe (Milkweed Editions, 2022)! This event will be perfect for your Sealey Challenge!

Register & join us for this free event on 8/11 at 7 PM ET:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/again-book-club-bluest-nude-tickets-1991385542765?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

02/07/2026

We’re on summer break! Submissions are closed and the magazine is on vacation. See you in August!

01/07/2026

"I tried to imagine what Mark Twain, dead more than a century, might have said to provoke the president. That question sent me back to a novel that once jolted my nervous system..."

A new essay by Keli Dailey, "Rereading Mark Twain While Everything Else Burns," is live this week! Art by Herikita.

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Coffee spilled across my bedsheets as I read the San Francisco Chronicle, my hometown paper, last June. An op-ed was denouncing the Trump administration