Introducing Moabet

Para moabet no se kere kandil. (Moabet continues into the darkness.)1 Moabet (מואביט) is a Ladino (or Judeo-Spanish or Judezmo) ...

The Porcupine Prince

The Porcupine Prince is a surreal fable about the magic of friendship and the joy of connection.

I.

Gerald Stern’s long poem I. is an extraordinary and wild compilation of poetic modes, moods, and registers—meandering and focused, hallucinatory and concrete, deranged and deeply ecstatic.

A Flag of No Nation

A meditation on world invention and collapse, A Flag of No Nation traces the stories of Turkish Jews in the twentieth century, blind colonists in a white ocean, and performers enacting new rituals around a nationless flag.

Woven

A story about two brilliant girls named Phyla and Lyla who live in a town where everyone’s hair is braided together. Their stories are interwoven: each story starts at one side of the book, and both stories meet at the book’s center page.

The Holy Folio: Editor’s Note

May Ayin’s tent be a circus of liberation: a home for those unmoored from master narratives, a home for those who find, in the unraveling of our inherited paradigms, the very possibility of freedom.

The Holy Fool: Editor’s Note

We must occasionally find pleasure in our folly, or we cannot continue to find pleasure in our wisdom.  —Friedrich Nietzsche1 ...

Rimoun Rametni | Salim Halali

Al-Ala, the music of al-Andalus, has always been present in my family. It was a sort of familiar hum in our lives and rituals.