Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire: The Soviet Jew in Full Colour Mikhail Iossel’s collection of memoir and lyrical pieces, Love Like Water, Love Like Fire, bears witness to a particular kind of experience — that of living and identifying as a Jew in the Soviet Union (now former Soviet Union) during theContinue reading “Essay on Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire. by Olga Stein”
Category Archives: Non-fiction
Sweating and Reading. an essay of books by Gordon Phinn
Books Referenced: Into the Soul of the World, Brad Wetzler (Hachette Books 2023)The Man Who Hacked the World, Alex Cody Foster (Turner Publishing 2022)Still Pictures, Janet Malcolm (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2023)Ghosts of the Orphanage, Christine Keneally (Public Affairs 2023)We Were Once a Family, Roxanna Asgarian (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2023)Just Once, No More, CharlesContinue reading “Sweating and Reading. an essay of books by Gordon Phinn”
Two Readings, Three Authors: On the Pleasures of Listening to Women Talking. by Olga Stein
Two Readings, Three Authors: On the Pleasures of Listening to Women Talking I haven’t attended a lecture or author reading since COVID. The pandemic was reason enough not to go anywhere crowded, and since — well, since then I’ve had to overcome certain habits of mind, as well as a tendency to prioritize tasks thatContinue reading “Two Readings, Three Authors: On the Pleasures of Listening to Women Talking. by Olga Stein”
Risking Life to Earn Crust. non-fiction by Diary Marif
Risking Life to Earn Crust On the last day of my final exams in the third grade, I excitedly anticipated joining my father, a courier and a Kulbar (porter). This is someone who takes items across the Iran-Iraq border, thereby putting themselves at great risk. Kulbars have little means of survival other than depending entirelyContinue reading “Risking Life to Earn Crust. non-fiction by Diary Marif”
Writers’ Wives. non-fiction by Eva Salzman
Writers’ Wives The Victorian writer’s equivalent of a Reader’s Wife photo might resemble Coventry Patmore’s homage to his first wife, Emily, that “Angel in the House”, which is also the title of a work for which he should surely be remembered. Men like Millais, Ruskin (who was shocked on this wedding night by his wife’sContinue reading “Writers’ Wives. non-fiction by Eva Salzman”
15 August kabul fall. non-fiction, photography by Ahmad Ali Fadakar
15 August, Kabul Falls. I don’t see Kabul anymore. Kabul doesn’t have its own blue sky anymore. And the girls of this city can no longer wear their flowery dresses and skirts. They’ve forgotten their laughter. It was a dark day for Kabul and its people. I didn’t think at all that the TalibanContinue reading “15 August kabul fall. non-fiction, photography by Ahmad Ali Fadakar”
My battle scars. Non-fiction by Diary Marif
My battle scars A scar the size of a small spider mars the left side of my head. It holds the memory of a four-year-old boy, who only knew war for the first four years of his life. His playground was an empty field and his toys were cannonballs, found among the ruins. One day,Continue reading “My battle scars. Non-fiction by Diary Marif”
Eve and her Descendants. part 2 of an essay by Olga Stein
Eve and her Descendants (Note to readers: This is the second part of the essay titled, “Religious Revanchism in the USA and that Old Antipathy for Women,” which appeared in the September 2022 issue of WordCity.) Who is Eve and what does she stand for? It has become an important question of late, especiallyContinue reading “Eve and her Descendants. part 2 of an essay by Olga Stein”
WordCity Literary Journal. November 2022.
©®| All rights to the content of this journal remain with WordCity Literary Journal and its contributing artists. Table of Contents Letter from the Editor. WordCity’s non-fiction editor, Olga Stein Our War on War War isn’t a place anyone would want to visit. Even this statement borders on the inane and insensitive, given the scaleContinue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. November 2022.”
November 2022 Editorial: Our War on War. by Olga Stein
Our War on War War isn’t a place anyone would want to visit. Even this statement borders on the inane and insensitive, given the scale of destruction, death, and suffering we’ve been shown by journalists who’re forced to shield consumers of news from the real devastation taking place on the ground. Let’s keep in mindContinue reading “November 2022 Editorial: Our War on War. by Olga Stein”
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