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Historical Fiction
A "smart, compassionate and elegant" debut novel about an Asian-Indian immigrant family from Nairobi and the secrets they keep from each other (Lauren Groff, author of Florida). The Chandaria family -- emigrants from the... See More
Literature & Fiction
Essays & CorrespondenceThe Common is a print and digital literary journal published biannually, in the fall and spring. Issues of The Common include short stories, essays, poems, and images that embody a strong sense of place. The Common Online... See More
Literature & FictionA portfolio of fiction and art from Kuwait, translated from the Arabic Stories from across the United States by Anna Badkhen Rubén Degollado An essay of art and love and the legacies of Teeny and Marcel Duchamp by... See More
Stories about an artist from Iceland, a grandmother in Italy, a journalist in India, and lovers in Berlin, and essays on race, memory, spirituality, and forest fires. Plus poems by National Book Award finalist Tommye Blount... See More
World LiteratureThe Common's spring issue includes a special portfolio of Palestinian stories in translation from Arabic, fiction set in 15th-century Italy, Appalachia, and the Texas-Mexico border, essays from India and France, and poems by... See More
Literature & FictionThe 22nd issue of The Common, the literary journal that engages with a modern sense of place, from Amherst College. In this issue, a portfolio of writing from the Arabian Gulf edited by Deepak Unnikrishnan. See More
World LiteratureNew fiction byEmma SloleyMartha CooleyCeleste MohammedNew essays by Lore Segal David H. LynnRavi ShankarNew poetry byAleksandar HemonKaren SkolfieldJose Hernandez DiazShort stories from Morocco, newly translated from Arabic... See More
Contents "The Common Statement" by Jennifer Acker Fiction "Reichelt's Parachute" by Ian Bassingthwaighte "Clouds" by Antonio Tabucchi (Translated by Martha Cooley and Antonio Romani) "Stewardship" by Edmund... See More
In addition to the global, place-based stories, essays, and poems you're used to reading in The Common, this issue also includes a portfolio of writing from and about the Lusosphere: Portugal's colonial and linguistic... See More
Issue 19 of The Common, spring 2020: A special portfolio of stories from Sudan, essays on brothers and murder trials, fiction about gender roles, bomb shelters, and life inside a correctional facility, and poems by Don... See More
Stories set in a haunted museum and on a rooftop in wartorn Iraq, essays on recreating the past, Ama Codjoe's DISQUIET Prize-winning poem "Burying Seeds," and more poems by Gail Mazur, Colin Channer, Chloe Martinez, and R... See More
World Literature
new fiction by Ghassan Zeineddine Angela F. Qian new Arabic stories by eight contemporary authors from Syria new essays by Aatish Taseer Antonio Romani new poems by Erica Ehrenberg Tyree Daye Ananda Lima Richie... See More
A special portfolio of Puerto Rican writers and artists reflecting on Hurricane Maria and its aftermath, an essay on growing up in and growing out of Black churches, fiction about music and families, and a 2018 DISQUIET... See More
World LiteratureAn essay on Egyptian and Bedouin identities, poetry from around the world, images by acclaimed artist Martha Rosler, a special portfolio of Arabic stories and artwork from Jordan, and more. Contents Fiction "From Husband... See More
Finding the extraordinary in the common has long been the mission of literature. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to... See More
Literature & FictionThe Common is a print and digital literary journal published biannually, in the fall and spring. Issues of The Common include short stories, essays, poems, and images that embody a strong sense of place. The Common Online... See More
Anthologies
Issue 12 (released 11/07/2016) Print edition New fiction by Emily Chammah, Elvis Bego, Sean Bernard, Vladislava Kolosova, Elizabeth Poliner, Joseph Kertes, and Clare Beams. Poetry by Erica Dawson, Max Freeman, Dolores... See More
Literature & Fiction
Co-edited by Acker and prominent Jordanian author Hisham Bustani, Issue 11 (entitled Tajdeed: Contemporary Arabic Fiction) features the work of 31 contributors from 15 Middle Eastern countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq... See More
Finding the extraordinary in the common has long been the mission of literature. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to... See More
Literature & FictionThe Literary Review is a quarterly that has been publishing out of Fairleigh Dickinson University since 1957. Our mission is to provide you with literature, including hybrid genres, foreign fiction, long poems, novellas. In... See More
Finding the extraordinary in the common has long been the mission of literature. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to... See More
Finding the extraordinary in the common has long been the mission of literature. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to... See More
Finding the extraordinary in the common has long been the mission of literature. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to... See More
TravelFinding the extraordinary in the common has long been the mission of literature. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to... See More
Finding the extraordinary in the common has long been the mission of literature. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to... See More
Finding the extraordinary in the common has long been the mission of literature. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to... See More
TravelFinding the extraordinary in the common has long been the mission of literature. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to... See More
Literature & FictionThis special ebook-only edition of The Common features three pieces of new short fiction for Summer 2012: "Here, the Weather is Lovely" by Lauri Anderson Alford, "The Servant" by Bipin Aurora, and "Flood Control", by Olivia... See More