ISSUE 28: SPECTACLE
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ISSUE 28: SPECTACLE ✺
Since October 7, Palestinian women in the West Bank have experienced increasing intimidation, imprisonment and violence.
Since October 7, Palestinian women in the West Bank have experienced increasing intimidation, imprisonment and violence.
An Easter retreat at the only Catholic shrine in Britain.
MORE ISSUE 28 PIECES COMING
“She wanted to watch as Bernadeta was denied divine grace and salvation for having had so many dealings with the devil.”
In the 1990s, a French theme park exhibited musicians from Côte d’Ivoire alongside exotic animals.
Mafalda, the Argentine comic strip heroine, took on war, dictatorship, and her parents.
In Georgia’s Adjara highlands, a traditional way of life is slowly disappearing.
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 Mara Kardas-Nelson, who wrote about the boom-and-bust cycle of foreign aid in Sierra Leone for our Promises issue.
A conversation with Caitlin L. Chandler, who wrote a dispatch from the Munich Security Conference for our Gospel issue.
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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.