The Avery Review tends to publish critical essays on architecture—essays that, through the method of the review, account for, challenge, and expand the past-present-future commitments (intellectual, political, spatial) of those working on the built environment. But there are times when our attempts to make sense of what is happening in the world, as people who think about cities and spaces, demands a break in our format; when the essay as a form feels futile against the urgencies of the present. The ongoing genocide—and urbicide and domicide—in Gaza, since October 2023, is such a moment. In reviewing our own commitment to the essay, we ask what other forms (formats and traditions) of writing are required amidst genocide. What other ways might we (re)act, evaluate, or narrate the extent to and rate at which Palestinian life is being eliminated by the Israeli settler state? In response to these questions, the editors launched the Gaza Pages, an ongoing editorial project that makes a persistent and insistent space within, and alongside, our essays for work by writers in Gaza, writing about Gaza, about living through genocide, and about Palestine. The Gaza Pages has so far published a variety of formats: poems, testimonies, diary entries, and social media posts, some in translation from Arabic to English. With these formats we hope to move beyond the limits of the essay, to center Palestinians in Gaza's experiences of genocide and the occupation in their own words, to attempt to speak and write into and through the atrocities, to record that which is being erased and destroyed.