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Rishi Nath

Rishi Nath is a mathematician and writer. Originally from Boston, he lives in and writes about Jamaica Queens. Rishi is a former Open City Creative Nonfiction Fellow.

By Rishi Nath:
Exit West: An Interview with Ishmael Reed
Fact/Fiction
The Physics of Storytelling
Jah Guide Me Through
Always Foreign, Always Brown
The Talented Master Khan
Everything Is a Surface
Vish and Dev: Undocumented in Richmond Hill
Anatomy Of A Fuel Shortage: The Hess Station on Liberty Avenue in Queens
Land of The Beavers: A Conversation With Queens Historian Carl Ballenas
Scenes From Sandy: South Queens Recovers, Slowly
Queens Stand Up: The Essential Reading Guide on Hip-Hop’s Forgotten Borough
Ghetto Qu’ran: South Jamaica Through The Life Of 50 Cent
Bebi Rejendra, Student
The Neighborhood You Know Nothing About
Five Boroughs, Seven Killings

Recent Articles

  • When the government demolished the only
    house we’d ever owned for a bridge in Manila
    Poetry
    By Hannah Keziah Agustin

    A bridge has landed on my doorstep & a paper is asking me to leave / behind what isn’t mine.

    Keep Moving: A Poem by Sham-e-Ali Nayeem
    Poetry
    By Sham-e-Ali Nayeem

    When the sky is falling / you must learn to / generate a force field.

    Atrophy
    Fiction
    By Maya McCoy

    She remembers the rituals she had imbued with her own significance: how her ex used to bring her a single flower after every exam, and how she’d watch it wilt on her desk as she studied for the next.

    The Here and There: On Refugees and Translation
    Essays
    By Jennifer Hayashida

    What knowledge, beyond fluency, is required in acts of translation?

    Hurting, Hurting
    Poetry
    By Erin Jin Mei O’Malley

    I’m not apologizing / when I offer my head to the leash // of your hands

    Twenty Years Later, Asian Americans Are Building the Scaffolding for Solidarity
    Essays
    By Deepa Iyer

    What does it take to strengthen and sustain the solidarity built in responses to crises like 9/11?

    Teaching as a Pakistani American Muslim Feminist: Ten, Twenty Years On
    Essays
    By Samina Najmi

    I’m often the outsider-insider and sometimes a bridge.

    Afterlife Diptych
    Poetry
    By Joumana Altallal

    In the gentle pull of the first light, / we hobble to stand our bodies / ours and wanting

    Collective Memories
    Interviews
    By Rajini Srikanth, Parag Rajendra Khandhar, Jyothi Natarajan

    Looking back at 9/11 and the Fall 2011 issue of the Asian American Literary Review

    A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer
    Fiction
    By Jefferson Lee

    I should have studied their faces as they said goodbye, the way they smelled, the lines on their hands.

    Permission and Perfectionism: A Conversation with erin Khuê Ninh
    Interviews
    By Mimi Wong

    “I think if we can hear from each other that being a model minority is not the only way to have value, and that being the good child is not the only way to be a good person, what might that unlock?”

    Origin Story
    Poetry
    By Krysta Lee Frost

    I emerged a tether / -less, violent hiss // of becoming, staring winter / straight in the mouth.

    “We Were Not Allowed To Mourn”
    Reportage
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    An Oral History of New York’s Arab and Muslim Community After 9/11

    The Last Palestinian
    Fiction
    By Mohamad Saleh

    What kind of exhibit on revolutionaries would it be without a living Palestinian? The rub of course is there are so few of you.

    Droning Across Postcolonial Borders: An Interview with Alex Quicho
    Interviews
    By benedict nguyễn

    “I feel like my writing is always either at a micro-cellular level or a drone level. There’s this constant cycle between being way too close and things feeling surreal, or pulled way out and things also feeling a little surreal.”

    Two Poems by Meher Manda
    Poetry
    By Meher Manda

    But a summer that begins must end. / Soon, the rains are called.

    Jessica Park Dropped Out of MIT but We Aren’t Supposed to Talk about It
    Fiction
    By Minyoung Lee

    I turned around to check whether the llama was still there. There he was, as fluffy and clueless as before, lashes waving as he sat on a tattered red mat thrown on the aisle.

    Easing the Aging of South Asians in America
    Reportage
    By Teresa Mathew

    India Home offers South Asian seniors a place to be themselves

    Hasten Your Burials
    Poetry
    By Walid Daou, Mariam Bazeed

    You desire a final frame / that suits and comforts, / a framing that supersedes / a death denied

    Two Poems by Jihyun Yun
    Poetry
    By Jihyun Yun

    Drink it all, / dredge the bottom for sunk honey

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