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Part Two: Anatomy

9 issues

October 2, 2026

Home Fire

Cover of Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie Kamila Shamsie, 2017. Antigone retold: a British Pakistani family, a son who joins ISIS, and a state that denies burial. October 2, 2026

A Woman Is No Man

Cover of A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum Etaf Rum, 2019. Three generations of Palestinian-American women in Brooklyn, between silence and voice. October 2, 2026

Homeland Elegies

Cover of Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar Ayad Akhtar, 2020. Autofiction about a playwright and his immigrant father in "the world that 9/11 made." October 2, 2026

A Place for Us

Cover of A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza Fatima Farheen Mirza, 2018. An Indian-American Shia family in California across decades, and a father and son who keep missing each other. October 2, 2026

Maps for Lost Lovers

Cover of Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam Nadeem Aslam, 2004. A Pakistani immigrant enclave in an English town in the aftermath of an "honor killing." October 2, 2026

The Submission

Cover of The Submission by Amy Waldman Amy Waldman, 2011. The anonymous winner of a 9/11 memorial competition turns out to be a Muslim American architect. October 2, 2026

Once in a Promised Land

Cover of Once in a Promised Land by Laila Halaby Laila Halaby, 2007. A secular Jordanian couple in Tucson come apart as suspicion, paranoia and anti-Arab racism close in. October 2, 2026

Home Boy

Cover of Home Boy by H. M. Naqvi H. M. Naqvi, 2009. Three young Pakistani men in New York go overnight from boulevardiers to a suspected sleeper cell. October 2, 2026

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Cover of The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Mohsin Hamid, 2007. A Princeton-educated Pakistani tells a silent American in a Lahore café how the American Dream soured after 9/11.