The new issue of “The Common” is here — and uncommonly good

Dear Readers,

It's a rainy spring day here in Western Massachusetts, the kind that seems to portend flowers, growth, and green. A perfect day to launch our spring issue, #29!
 

We excited to share a special portfolio of photography and translated prose from Amman, Jordan, a fascinating look at culture, history, and modernization in one of the Middle East's most diverse and booming cities. Browse online or order your copy now. If you're a fan of print, this one's a bright, beautiful, lime green color, and the inside cover and flaps are lemon yellow! 

Check out these highlights:

• • Writing translated from the Arabic about the city of Amman, Jordan
  • Full color and black and white photography of the architecture, business-owners, culture, and sheep (yes, sheep!) of Amman
     
  • Fiction about the US military bombing on the Hawaiian island of Kaho’olawe, Hinduism's elephant-headed god Ganesha, and a motley cast of characters in an Austin boxing gym
     
  • Nonfiction about ritual indigo-dyed fabric-weaving in Cameroon
  • Poems by Mary Jo Salter, David Lehman, Erica Dawson, Rick Barot, Terra Oliveira, and many more