ISSUE 24: BODIES

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The Remains of Uruguay’s Dictatorship
Meredith Jackson
Reporting
The Remains of Uruguay’s Dictatorship
Meredith Jackson
Reporting

The military’s pact of silence is slowing down investigations to find the missing.

Meredith Jackson
Reporting
Under Supervision
Lavender Au
Reporting
Under Supervision
Lavender Au
Reporting

Transgender people in China — no matter their age — require parental consent to transition.

Lavender Au
Reporting
Can an Activist Revolutionize Government from the Inside?
Sammy Feldblum
Reporting
Can an Activist Revolutionize Government from the Inside?
Sammy Feldblum
Reporting

Rodrigo Mundaca, a leader of Chile’s water justice movement, has grand plans.

Sammy Feldblum
Reporting
People from Oetimu
Felix Nesi (Tr. Lara Norgaard)
Literature
People from Oetimu
Felix Nesi (Tr. Lara Norgaard)
Literature

“Torn between jealousy and heartbreak, the men began to drink.”

Felix Nesi (Tr. Lara Norgaard)
Literature
What Do We Owe the Dead?
Tyler McBrien
Reporting, Essay
What Do We Owe the Dead?
Tyler McBrien
Reporting, Essay

How international human rights law fails to recognize the rights of the dead.

Tyler McBrien
Reporting, Essay
Bone Into Stone
Jhumpa Lahiri
Essay
Bone Into Stone
Jhumpa Lahiri
Essay

“The particular task of this translation has been to subject my literary rock to a radical transformation: to metamorphosis.”

Jhumpa Lahiri
Essay

OCCASIONAL DISPATCHES ON THE LATEST NEWS, EVENTS, AND IDEAS

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“Forever Is Over”
Justin Salhani
“Forever Is Over”
Justin Salhani

The first days of post-Assad Syria.

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Justin Salhani
Au Revoir!
Madeleine Schwartz
Au Revoir!
Madeleine Schwartz

What’s happening in France?

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Madeleine Schwartz

INTERVIEWS WITH OUR CONTRIBUTORS AND REPORTERS AROUND THE GLOBE

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Translating from Latvia’s Threatened Languages 
Translating from Latvia’s Threatened Languages 

A conversation with writer and translator Will Mawhood, whose translation of poetry from Livonian, a threatened language in Latvia, appears in our Deadlines issue, alongside an introduction on the literary traditions of Livonian and Latgalian.

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Stories from the Kurdistan Region
Stories from the Kurdistan Region

A conversation with Winthrop Rodgers, whose article on efforts to preserve Yazidi oral storytelling was published in our Language issue.

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JOURNALISM

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How to Survive a Coup
Emily Fishbein & Nu Nu Lusan
How to Survive a Coup
Emily Fishbein & Nu Nu Lusan

Four young women share stories of survival under military rule in Myanmar.

Emily Fishbein & Nu Nu Lusan
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States of Sanctuary
Caitlin L. Chandler
States of Sanctuary
Caitlin L. Chandler

As governments across the world crack down on migration, can alternatives to asylum make a difference?

Caitlin L. Chandler

ESSAYS

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Memory Machines
Jessica Traynor
Memory Machines
Jessica Traynor

Data centers have proliferated across Ireland, at great cost.

Jessica Traynor
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Chokepoint Politics
Jatin Dua
Chokepoint Politics
Jatin Dua

Global maritime shipping is riddled with obstacles that slow down logistics, some of which are intentionally implemented to increase profit.

Jatin Dua
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What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About South Africa
Eve Fairbanks
What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About South Africa
Eve Fairbanks

The tech mogul’s statements about his country of origin reveal that he never really knew the place.

Eve Fairbanks

POETRY

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The Orange Tree
Dong Li
The Orange Tree
Dong Li

“Tiananmen Tower was flooded with the orange-red faces of the young guards. / People wandered and wasted away.”

Dong Li

BULLETIN FROM BABEL

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Death in Grammar
Teresa Grøtan (Tr. Caroline Waight)
Death in Grammar
Teresa Grøtan (Tr. Caroline Waight)

“Oh, how I admire the capacity of the Spanish language to express uncertainty so precisely!”

Teresa Grøtan (Tr. Caroline Waight)
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The Woman Behind Borges
Alejandro Chacoff (Tr. Jessica Sequeira)
The Woman Behind Borges
Alejandro Chacoff (Tr. Jessica Sequeira)

María Kodama’s fierce loyalty transformed the legacy of Argentina’s most-cherished author.

Alejandro Chacoff (Tr. Jessica Sequeira)
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My Literary Breakup
Elisabeth Åsbrink
My Literary Breakup
Elisabeth Åsbrink

Notes on the end of a fifteen-year friendship.

Elisabeth Åsbrink