ISSUE 26: GOSPEL
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ISSUE 26: GOSPEL ✺
The pope’s autobiography styles him as “of the people,” but his past in Argentina is more complicated.
The pope’s autobiography styles him as “of the people,” but his past in Argentina is more complicated.
Argentina's president Javier Milei takes the “chainsaw” to women’s rights
“It was mourned by no one / And nothing.”
Beer and bewilderment at the international security conference.
Truth is a fragmented mirror. What are writers to do?
“Even in her wildest dreams, she had not thought that Bua would haunt her after death.”
MORE ISSUE 26 PIECES COMING
Reporting from the fall of Goma.
A 125-year-old religion, founded by a Belgian metal worker, refuses to explain itself.
After years of violence, Syrians hope to restore the ancient city in the desert.
Farming vs. the earth in contemporary film.
OCCASIONAL DISPATCHES ON THE LATEST NEWS, EVENTS, AND IDEAS
President Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID have thrown the “capital of international development” into disarray.
Diplomats, lobbyists and grifters celebrate with sequins, jollof rice and prayer.
INTERVIEWS WITH OUR CONTRIBUTORS AND REPORTERS AROUND THE GLOBE
A conversation with Lavender Au, who wrote about China’s strict policy requiring parental consent for trans people seeking gender-affirming surgery, no matter their age, for our Bodies issue.
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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JOURNALISM
Recording Ukrainian dreams in wartime.
Behind the evictions transforming Mexico City.
Transgender people in China — no matter their age — require parental consent to transition.
ESSAYS
Eduard Habsburg, with the help of his royal ancestors, wants to fix your marriage, your soul, and your politics.
Two recent Uyghur memoirs grapple with how to portray the oppressed minority as more than victims.
The tech mogul’s statements about his country of origin reveal that he never really knew the place.
POETRY
“The world happens, as illusive as dreams.”
BULLETIN FROM BABEL
Three novels explore the idea of translators as traitors to themselves.
The language-learning app won’t make you fluent, but maybe that’s not the point.