ISSUE 22: LANGUAGE
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ISSUE 22: LANGUAGE ✺
Combinations of characters on a screen mean nothing without agency and intention.
Combinations of characters on a screen mean nothing without agency and intention.
In the face of genocide, displacement and technology, a new project hopes to preserve an oral storytelling tradition from Iraq’s Kurdistan Region.
“Oh, how I admire the capacity of the Spanish language to express uncertainty so precisely!”
“Day after day, I kept turning up the volume of the music, but it only seemed further and further away. After a few months, it had disappeared completely.”
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“Conserbado believed that everything he wrote was God’s gift to mankind.”
“I’d be lying if I said I’ve always enjoyed reading.”
How forensic linguists use grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases.
The language-learning app won’t make you fluent, but maybe that’s not the point.
Three novels explore the idea of translators as traitors to themselves.
A new generation of activists revives interest in a native language as Taiwan seeks distance from China.
OCCASIONAL DISPATCHES ON THE LATEST NEWS, EVENTS, AND IDEAS
Brazil’s south reckons with how to respond to extreme floods.
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?
INTERVIEWS WITH OUR CONTRIBUTORS AND REPORTERS AROUND THE GLOBE
A conversation with Carey Baraka, whose short story “The Sound of the Waves” was published in our America issue.
A conversation with Paloma De Dinechin, whose reporting on the scientists recording the sounds of the Amazon rainforest was published in our Lessons 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.