ISSUE 24: BODIES
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ISSUE 24: BODIES ✺
Dmitrij’s main crime was photographing bridges in Vladivostok. I decided to write to him.
Dmitrij’s main crime was photographing bridges in Vladivostok. I decided to write to him.
“I want to think of her as living.”
Ukraine is one of the leading countries in international surrogacy — even during wartime.
“I understood that he was testing me, and that he was doing so because for some reason he had decided to believe in me.”
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The military’s pact of silence is slowing down investigations to find the missing.
Transgender people in China — no matter their age — require parental consent to transition.
Rodrigo Mundaca, a leader of Chile’s water justice movement, has grand plans.
“Torn between jealousy and heartbreak, the men began to drink.”
How international human rights law fails to recognize the rights of the dead.
“The particular task of this translation has been to subject my literary rock to a radical transformation: to metamorphosis.”
OCCASIONAL DISPATCHES ON THE LATEST NEWS, EVENTS, AND IDEAS
The first days of post-Assad Syria.
What’s happening in France?
INTERVIEWS WITH OUR CONTRIBUTORS AND REPORTERS AROUND THE GLOBE
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.
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
Four young women share stories of survival under military rule in Myanmar.
As governments across the world crack down on migration, can alternatives to asylum make a difference?
Life in the aftermath of the 2020 explosion.
ESSAYS
Data centers have proliferated across Ireland, at great cost.
Global maritime shipping is riddled with obstacles that slow down logistics, some of which are intentionally implemented to increase profit.
The tech mogul’s statements about his country of origin reveal that he never really knew the place.
POETRY
“Tiananmen Tower was flooded with the orange-red faces of the young guards. / People wandered and wasted away.”
“Bird the Knife” and “Measure to protect cultural heritage”
BULLETIN FROM BABEL
“Oh, how I admire the capacity of the Spanish language to express uncertainty so precisely!”
María Kodama’s fierce loyalty transformed the legacy of Argentina’s most-cherished author.
Notes on the end of a fifteen-year friendship.