The Race for Cheap, Quick Data in Africa
Meta has invested heavily in a submarine cable to Africa. What will it ask for in return?
The Glamour Zoo
“There was a restlessness in the breeze, and in the rain, and in the golden snub-nosed monkey and the red panda next door, and yes, in Wang Yifan and me.”
Bears at the Border
How immigration and tariff policies affect the animals that roam between the U.S. and Mexico.
The Sound of Cymraeg
A conversation with Robert Minhinnick about translating the language of Wales.
Guantánamo’s Secret History
Trump isn’t the first U.S. president to use the military base to incarcerate migrants.
Protecting Peru’s Waves
A new law was supposed to shield beaches from development and oil spills. It’s not being enforced.
Consider the Snail
“In writing about snails, I wanted to write about slowness and strangeness, solitude and death, hibernation and estivation.”
Poems From Wales
“I heard of a young man, traveling the world, / who had taken with him a Welsh dictionary.”
Putin’s Culture War
Under Russian occupation, Mariupol’s cultural institutions have become propaganda and repression machines.
Palestinian Literature and the “Recurring Nightmare” of Occupation
A conversation with Karim Kattan, whose short story “Burial at Sea” was published in our Fiction issue.
Lift Up Your Hearts
“There lay the space suit, its sleeves and legs twisted unnaturally, like a victim of a fall from a great height.”
The Competition of Unfinished Stories
“He had neither family nor tribe to be proud of, except for Neil Armstrong, who set foot on the Moon the day he was born.”
Illegal Alien
“I was up against two opposing demands: his longing to be pronounced a man, and the government’s preference that he was not.”
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