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The Deserter
“Tomorrow I’d be sent to the front lines. Then I noticed my missing leg had sent me a letter.”
Adopted by Russia
Hundreds of Ukrainian orphans taken from the Donbas region are now stranded in the Kremlin’s orphanage system.
Letters from Exile
“What can I do, I will always be, at heart, an emigrant — but what lessons have I drawn from it?”
César Aira’s Magic
How the eccentric Argentine author took over Latin American literature.
Wartime Influencers
Israeli content creators have been invited to tour the sites of the October 7 attacks.
The Three Pillars of the Enforced Disappearance
Over a hundred thousand citizens have vanished at the hands of the Syrian regime.
The Orange Tree
“Tiananmen Tower was flooded with the orange-red faces of the young guards. / People wandered and wasted away.”
The Case of Cem
“I cannot be a witness to what happened after May 5, 1481. They killed me at five o’clock in the evening.”
Letters from Inside Iran’s Evin Prison
Five Iranian women, all human rights activists, write of life behind bars.
Reckoning with Denmark’s Cruel Birth Control Campaign
For nearly a decade, the Danish government sought to control Greenland’s population by implanting IUD devices in Inuit girls, often without their consent.
How to Deepfake an Election
In Slovakia, a digitally altered video swung a recent national election.
The Frog That Couldn’t Jump
“I felt like questioning my own existence. What are these people? Is this still North Korea?”
