Articles
A Society Exhausted by Repetition Dispatch
Anonymous
A young Iranian weighs the protests in his country, and traces the line between hope and despair, in an essay delivered through a frail WhatsApp connection
The Hidden Imran Reportage
Osman Samiuddin
The cricketing legend is Pakistan’s most famous man. Can the state make him vanish?
Days of Complicity Dispatch
Aziz Rana
A legal scholar’s diary of Trump’s return to power
‘An Explosion Long in the Making’ Conversation
Arang Keshavarzian
A conversation about ‘the most intense protests’ since 1979, the prospect of American intervention, the surreal resurgence of Reza Pahlavi – and the future of Iranian society
‘We Can't Live Like This Anymore’ Dispatch
Naghmeh Sohrabi
Messages from Iran
Homeland Empire Essay
Nikhil Pal Singh
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is creating a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity
‘An International Thug’ Conversation
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
The Colombian novelist on Trump’s new doctrine and the long shadow of US aggression in Latin America
Gaza Notes Artist Project
Nan Goldin with David Sherman
Scenes from the destruction of a people
How Gaza Broke the Art World Essay
David Velasco
The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence
Our Monstrous Ideas Translation
Natalia Ginzburg
In these two essays, newly translated for Equator, the Italian writer articulates a powerful moral vision of what it means to belong, and to whom we owe our compassion
The Makers of Modern China Translation
Zheng Xiaoqiong
For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution
Caste and Chappals Translation
Chandu Maheriya
What leather footwear reveals about discrimination against Dalits
The Demand for Silence Essay
Yevgenia Belorusets
Everyone wants Ukraine to be a nation of heroes – but no one wants to talk about the violence required to sustain armed resistance to Russia’s invasion
Two Poems Poetry
Michael Hofmann
Surrealism Against Fascism Essay
Naomi Klein
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
Pity and Fear Essay
Hisham Matar
What images of cruelty reveal about the limits of power
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco Reportage
Daniel Trilling
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
Beyond the Apocalypse Argument
Amitav Ghosh
How visions of catastrophe shape the ‘climate solutions’ imposed by aid agencies
Boyhood Memoir
Yuri Slezkine
What I learnt from the Soviet Adventure Library
Farewell to Podemos Memoir
Lilith Verstrynge
My decision to quit politics at 31
I Left My Sorrows in the Laundry Basin Poetry
Haidar Al-Ghazali
King of the Aral Sea Translation
Liu Zichao
A Central Asian travelogue
Murder House Reportage
Na Zhong
The Silicon Valley killing that exposed the new fault lines in Chinese society
Statemania Essay
Rahmane Idrissa
When the American Dream came to Africa
The Coast Photo Essay
Sohrab Hura
The Disaster Correspondent Argument
Lina Mounzer
Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans
The Xi Jinping School of Journalism Memoir
Soyonbo Borjgin
The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter
Two Poems Poetry
Aria Aber
Two Years of Genocide Dispatch
Sondos Sabra
In Gaza City, people are slowly returning, pitching their tents over the ashes of homes
We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves Essay
Benjamin Moser
How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide
When Your Father Dies of AIDS Fiction
Oksana Vasyakina
An excerpt from the novel Steppe
