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Passing: An Elegy in VIII Parts

50, New Essay by Naseem Jamnia

I.

As a child, you hate sticking out the way you do: weird house, weird family, weird language. But your father calls you a princess, claims his uncle had sworn to royal blood even on his dying day. Regardless of …

Tohid

50, New Art by Anonymous

I’ve been scrolling through twitter for hours, watching my countries revolution through social media. It’s overwhelming. Can I hope? Hope has led to heartbreak so many times. I see an image of a man in Tehran holding a sign reading …

Testing a Pattern / Replicas / Swim, Swam, Swum

50, New Poetry by Jenny Sadre-Orafai

Testing a Pattern

I’ve watched someone who needed air
pitch a loose fist through her own window.
It was the second time I watched her die.

My mouth is a window open.

I hang heavy toile curtains—a scene
of a
…

Hoss Kojast

50, New Art by Parisa Karami

Hoss Kojast

ARTIST’S STATEMENT This is a story of disappearances that cannot be assimilated.  Even though the Iranian diaspora of the 1980s had managed an escape, for the majority it was not a great escape. We were largely upper middle class families …

lost in her hair (monday)

50, New Art by Pegah Pasalar

My childhood was marked by documentations of a lot of firsts. My family, sharing my aunt’s lone mini-DV camcorder among their whole big group, has decided what the pivotal moments to be captured for me were. I have often asked …

Whisper My Name / 9,272.70 Miles

50, New Art by Azin Seraj

Whisper My Name (2009)

Embracing the element of chance and offering symbolic interpretation, this video is a visual diary of an artist’s journey back to her childhood school in Dehkadeh, Iran. The empty rooms and their decayed elements resonate with …

The Blue Sky

50, New Poetry by Leila Seyedzadeh

The sky is not blue in all places

There are mountains, there are trees

There are no mountains, there are trees

Yet the sky here is higher

The shadows follow me

The outlines around the objects

My imagination of the …

Issue 49: Fall / Winter 2022

49, New Issue by New Orleans Review

Enough is Enough by Rahele MahoutiContributors: Diana Valenzuela, Briana Bhola, Gabriela Barre, Wancy Young Cho, Brandon Haffner, Darina Sikmashvili, Rachel Rabbit White, Mercedes Lawry, Theodora Ziolkowski, Lilith Acadia, Caroline Laganas, V. Batyko, Sarah Cavar, Adele Williams, Chrisopher Shipman, Elizabeth Rogers, Kirie Pedersen, Kyla Marshell

Issue 48: Spring / Summer 2022

New Issue by New Orleans Review

Contributors: Breanna Henry, Charlie Coulter, Melanie Hucklebridge, Allison Field Bell, Roy Kesey, Frances Ogamba, Kaylie Saidin, Morgan Eklund, Shelby Clark, P. Hodges Adams, Brian Cyzyk, Brandi George, Supritha Rajan, Oksana Maksymchuk, Susan Meyers, Danielle Shorr

Introducing Issue 43: This Hustle Is Not Your Grandpa’s African Lit

43, Essay, New Issue by Mukoma Wa Ngugi & Laura T. Murphy

When African literature is published in the West, it is all too often realist, in English, and in the spirit of Chinua Achebe. But romance, science fiction, fantasy, epic, experimental poetry, satire, and political allegory all find expression in Africa, …

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Call for Submissions

Call for submissions for issue #51, as well as our poetry and micro essay contests. Learn more and submit your work here.

New Orleans Review is delighted to announce the publication of its first book, Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance
(Bloomsbury 2019).

Visit the Digital Archive of NOR Print Issues, 1968-2019

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