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About The Common | The Common
MISSION
The Common is a literary organization whose mission is to deepen our individual and collective sense of place.
Based at Amherst College, we aim to serve as a vibrant common space for the glob...
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Issues | The Common
Current Issue: 27
A special portfolio of Arabic fiction from Chad, South Sudan, and Eritrea; short stories from Cairo, Taiwan, and New Mexico; essays on memory, youth, and desire; and poems on history...
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Teach The Common | The Common
Pick two issues of
The Common.Use our most recent issues or select from our archives. Our staff can help you choose the best issues for your curriculum.
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Issue 1 | The Common
By YEHUDIT BEN-ZVI HELLER The puzzle of the sun’s longing for the sea The marvel: her love fills the sky overflows the rim till the sea is one with the sky The sun like Dido...
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Issue 19 | The Common
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 Share, John Freema...
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Issue 24 | The Common
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...