The Bare Life Review

Our COVID series continues with "The Sound of Sirens," Maija Mäkinen's moving meditation on loss, memory, and what it means to stay home. Under the quiet skies I hear the sirens of ambulances and think of my grandmother, dead since 1993. We in the city are used to the constant wail of emergency vehicles, but these sirens are too frequent, and you cannot help but be aware of each one. In some moments you’ll be listening to one when another begins in a different direction, and the sounds join together like the howling of wolves in the night. https://www.barelifereview.org/post/the-sound-of-sirens

From Mehdi M. Kashani: a new essay in our #COVID19 series, on the uncanny familiarity of quarantine. Check out "In Isolation, But For Once Not Alone" https://www.barelifereview.org/post/for-once-not-alone

Our COVID series continues with "The Sound of Sirens," Maija Mäkinen's moving meditation on loss, memory, and what it means to stay home. Under the quiet skies I hear the sirens of ambulances and think of my grandmother, dead since 1993. We in the city are used to the constant wail of emergency vehicles, but these sirens are too frequent, and you cannot help but be aware of each one. In some moments you’ll be listening to one when another begins in a different direction, and the sounds join together like the howling of wolves in the night. https://www.barelifereview.org/post/the-sound-of-sirens

Excited to publish Arash Azizi for our latest piece in the Covid-19 Series: May Day Without Crowds: A Historian Reflecting on May Day and the Pandemic The arrival of Covid-19 might cause us to ask: Are we now condemned to live through previously unimaginable gravities that would make real for us the violent lives and eras we study?... Read the full piece here https://www.barelifereview.org/post/may-day-without-crowds

The latest piece in our COVID19 series: Good Neighbors Are Hard to Find by Iheoma Nwachukwu https://www.barelifereview.org//good-neighbors-are-hard-to

What better way to celebrate Earth Day 2020 than by submitting your writing to our upcoming volume: the Climate Issue! Link to submit is here: barelifereview.org/submit As a reminder, we’ve expanded our eligibility criteria for the this issue only, to include non-immigrant artists who have experienced displacement as a result of climate disaster. Send us your words!