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Part One: Roots

23 issues

October 2, 2026

The Moor's Account, Week 1: Three Clocks at Once

Cover of The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami Mustafa opens with God, with the line of his father, and with three clocks running at once: a sacred calendar, the count of his own years, and the years of the men who own him. Before any ship leaves shore, we are asked to notice something strange — a man speaking to us from a room that is October 2, 2026

Minaret

Cover of Minaret by Leila Aboulela Leila Aboulela, 2005. A secular Sudanese woman, exiled to London, chooses faith and the hijab: the veil as agency, not oppression. October 2, 2026

The Moor's Account

Cover of The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami Laila Lalami, 2014. The imagined memoir of Estebanico, the Moroccan survivor the official chronicle gave a single line.