ISSUE 17: LAND
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ISSUE 17: LAND ✺
Two recent Uyghur memoirs grapple with how to portray the oppressed minority as more than victims.
Two recent Uyghur memoirs grapple with how to portray the oppressed minority as more than victims.
As Europe seems to be falling apart, Vienna dances on.
Hundreds of Ukrainian orphans taken from the Donbas region are now stranded in the Kremlin’s orphanage system.
How Italy’s prime minister uses lawsuits and intimidation to reshape the culture.
Why the Disney formula doesn’t work in China.
“They have been friends all their lives, living in close quarters in a typesetter’s drawer.”
MORE ISSUE 17 PIECES COMING SOON
As governments across the world crack down on migration, can alternatives to asylum make a difference?
OCCASIONAL DISPATCHES ON THE LATEST NEWS, EVENTS, AND IDEAS
In conflicts around the world, food and hunger are used as tools of war. What's the role of international law in addressing human-inflicted starvation?
In Bangkok, the Israel-Hamas War threatens to curdle domestic tensions.
INTERVIEWS WITH OUR CONTRIBUTORS AND REPORTERS AROUND THE GLOBE
A conversation with Danielle Mackey, whose reporting on environmental activism in El Salvador under President Nayib Bukele was published in our Money issue.
A conversation with Christopher Clark, whose article on the French far-right media outlet was published in our Pundits issue.
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JOURNALISM
Four young women share stories of survival under military rule in Myanmar.
“Do you still love me knowing that I’m an assassin?” “Absolutely I do.”
How the northern German village of Unterlüß became dependent on the arms manufacturer Rheinmetall.
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
How the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse.
Kawa Nemir’s translation is an archive of the language, which has been suppressed by Turkey's nationalist politics.
Notes on the end of a fifteen-year friendship.
Writing About Erasure
Two recent Uyghur memoirs grapple with how to portray the oppressed minority as more than victims.