Articles
Essay
Yi-Ling Liu
Kafe Hu was a pioneer in the underground scene that made Chengdu into China's hip-hop capital. But what happens when the counterculture blows up?
Reportage
Salar Abdoh
The Islamic Republic of Iran, fearing for its own survival, presides over a bloodbath
Argument
Ante Andabak
In the pages of a defunct satirical magazine, I learned to loathe the nationalism that raised me
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
Reportage
Osman Samiuddin
The cricketing legend is Pakistan’s most famous man. Can the state make him vanish?
Dispatch
Aziz Rana
A legal scholar’s diary of Trump’s return to power
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
Dispatch
Naghmeh Sohrabi
Messages from Iran
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
Conversation
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
The Colombian novelist on Trump’s new doctrine and the long shadow of US aggression in Latin America
Artist Project
Nan Goldin with David Sherman
Scenes from the destruction of a people
Essay
David Velasco
The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence
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
Translation
Zheng Xiaoqiong
For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution
Translation
Chandu Maheriya
What leather footwear reveals about discrimination against Dalits
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
Poetry
Michael Hofmann
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?
Essay
Hisham Matar
What images of cruelty reveal about the limits of power
Reportage
Daniel Trilling
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
Argument
Amitav Ghosh
How visions of catastrophe shape the ‘climate solutions’ imposed by aid agencies
Memoir
Yuri Slezkine
What I learnt from the Soviet Adventure Library
Memoir
Lilith Verstrynge
My decision to quit politics at 31
Poetry
Haidar Al-Ghazali
Translation
Liu Zichao
A Central Asian travelogue
Reportage
Na Zhong
The Silicon Valley killing that exposed the new fault lines in Chinese society
Essay
Rahmane Idrissa
When the American Dream came to Africa
Photo Essay
Sohrab Hura
Argument
Lina Mounzer
Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans
Memoir
Soyonbo Borjgin
The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter
Poetry
Aria Aber
Dispatch
Sondos Sabra
In Gaza City, people are slowly returning, pitching their tents over the ashes of homes
Essay
Benjamin Moser
How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide
Fiction
Oksana Vasyakina
An excerpt from the novel Steppe
