Jessi Jezewska Stevens

Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s most recent book is Ghost Pains. She is a frequent contributor to Foreign Policy and teaches at the Schweizerisches Literaturinstitut in Switzerland. (October 2025)

Stripped of Myths

Sjón’s Red Milk casts doubt on whether radicalization can ever be rationally narrated.

Red Milk

by Sjón, translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb

October 23, 2025 issue

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