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Punctuated by a series of photographs from Shaktoolik, Alaska, an Inupiaq village whose largely Indigenous population ranks as one of the world’s most imperiled by climate change, \u003cem\u003eThis Peculiar Radiant Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e considers the crisis’s impact on human migration—not only in the so-called developing world, but in regions where an illusion of stability has long presided—charting both the vast extent of its reach and its troubled intersection with the legacy of colonialism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this volume: Joan Naviyuk Kane pays homage to Shaktoolik with a poem equal parts elegy and ode; Omar El Akkad maps the disturbing ethics and complex economy obscured, in a cold future, by the warmth of a blanket; Heidi Kaloustian draws upon history, art, and our present crises to paint a vivid, Borgesian nightmare; and Olga Zilberbourg channels a single mother who, nursing new life, cannot escape an old sense that “the planet… must be as tired of humans as we are of ourselves.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaken together, these fourteen pieces constitute an impassioned missive to a damaged world—to this peculiar, radiant landscape—and further illustrate the vitality of world literature in grappling with the urgent problems of our time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProse by:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKeyan Bowes\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOmar El Akkad\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmanda Kallis\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeidi Kaloustian\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCaroline Kim\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMelissa Mogollon\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbbigail N. 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Led by Editor-in-Chief Nyuol Lueth Tong (2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree; editor of \u003cem\u003eThere Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney’s 52: In Their Faces, a Landmark\u003c\/em\u003e), its staff of immigrant editors includes the authors Maria Kuznetsova (\u003cem\u003eSomething Unbelievable\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOksana, Behave!\u003c\/em\u003e), and Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (\u003cem\u003eHouse of Stone\u003c\/em\u003e). 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