I have a friend in Iran, about my age. She has a daughter who translates from Persian to English and Japanese. Because of the nature of her work she lives outside Iran. When the unrest in Iran happened a few months ago, I wrote an...

May This Falling Continue This Issue of Usawa, themed, ‘Violence, Resurgence Closure’, was chosen, as a response to the tumultuous events which have occurred, and are still under progress around us – internationally, nationally, and locally. Russia and Ukraine have been locked in a bloody...

We dedicate issue #9 of the Usawa Literary Review curated around the theme of violence to seven-year-old Tongsing Hangsing and his family who were killed in the horrific unrest currently ongoing in Manipur. We stand in solidarity with the wrestlers protesting against sexual harassment of...