Guernica Magazine

Moving Forward

On Joanna Chen’s essay, it’s retraction, and Guernica’s new publisher.

Guernica magazine was founded twenty years ago with a mission to confront power with counter narrative. A literary space of dissent that, in the words of George Saunders, “respects the life of the mind with an intensity rarely seen these days,” is a global community of writers

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