Essay
Eva Menasse
Nothing can stop Germany’s moral panic over antisemitism
Essay
Abdaljawad Omar
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
Argument
Melinda Cooper
The billionaire patriarchs of the ascendant far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
Essay
David Velasco
The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence
Poetry
Haidar Al-Ghazali
Argument
Mona Ali
Hormuz and the end of American hegemony
Editorial
The Editors
The fundamental problem of the present is complicity
Conversation
Ivan Krastev
Viktor Orbán‘s vision for Europe
Editorial
The Editors
America’s defeat in the Persian Gulf reveals the world to come
Reportage
Salar Abdoh
The Islamic Republic of Iran, fearing for its own survival, presides over a bloodbath
Argument
Andrew Arsan
Netanyahu’s war to remake the Middle East
Reportage
Rania Abouzeid
In a country redefining its national symbols, holidays, historic heroes and school curriculum, what it even means to be Syrian is an open question
Fiction
Oksana Vasyakina
An excerpt from the novel Steppe
Argument
Lina Mounzer
Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans
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?
Conversation
Rahmane Idrissa
Military revolutions and jihadist insurgencies in the Sahel
Memoir
Soyonbo Borjgin
The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter
Dispatch
Mohammed R. Mhawish
In Palestine, the results matter less than the fact that the game persists
Poetry
Michael Hofmann
Photo Essay
Sohrab Hura
Conversation
Joe Sacco
The graphic novelist discusses his research into rising political violence – in India and around the world
Reportage
Daniel Trilling
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
Essay
Benjamin Moser
How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide
Translation
Zheng Xiaoqiong
A poet has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution
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
Artist Project
Nan Goldin with David Sherman
Scenes from the destruction of a people
Dispatch
Naghmeh Sohrabi
Messages from Iran
Conversation
Charlie Thomas
Britain’s High Court has ruled against the government’s ban of the direct action group
Memoir
Yuri Slezkine
What I learnt from the Soviet Adventure Library
Dispatch
Guillermo L.
Cuba is wasting away and making us waste away
Translation
Thomas Mann
In a previously unpublished essay from 1949, the German novelist reflects on America’s ‘terrifying moral decline’
Symposium
Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran by Lina Mounzer, Aslı Bâli and Khosro Majd
Conversation
Susana Muhamad
A leading Colombian climate activist on the right-wing resurgence and the fate of Gustavo Petro’s green reforms
Conversation
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
The Colombian novelist on Trump’s new doctrine and the long shadow of US aggression in Latin America
Translation
Mariella Mehr
On Switzerland’s hidden persecution of the Yenish people
Newsletter
Joseph P. Masco, Lisa Wedeen
Memoir
Siddhartha Deb
A memoir of disenchantment
Editorial
The Editors
The adoration of force has become the West’s ruling passion
Dispatch
Sazi Bongwe
Fifty years later, South Africans cannot put Sam Nzima’s photograph behind them
Dispatch
Zahra Nader
When Pakistan bombed a rehabilitation facility, the victims were addicts detained by the Taliban
Conversation
Adam Tooze, Wang Hui
A conversation about the ‘short twentieth century’ and our paradoxical present
Argument
Amitav Ghosh
How visions of catastrophe shape the ‘climate solutions’ imposed by aid agencies
Essay
Hisham Matar
What images of cruelty reveal about the limits of power
Memoir
Lilith Verstrynge
My decision to quit politics at 31
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?
Symposium
Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran by Hamid Alizad, Ala’a Shehabi and Justin Salhani
Photo Essay
Hoda Afshar
In the islands of the Strait of Hormuz, off the southern coast of Iran, a distinctive local culture has emerged
Translation
Liu Zichao
A Central Asian travelogue
Translation
Golan Haji
Growing up in the shadow of a burned cinema, a Kurdish poet in Syria learns to read the landscape for traces of a violent history
Argument
Ante Andabak
In the pages of a defunct satirical magazine, I learned to loathe the nationalism that raised me
Poetry
Aria Aber
Translation
Chandu Maheriya
What leather footwear reveals about discrimination against Dalits
Fiction
Han Ong
An excerpt from the rediscovered cult classic Fixer Chao
Translation
Óscar Martínez
How the Salvadoran president sent his childhood friend to die in prison
Dispatch
Sara Mokhavat
It was hard to imagine that I might soon be in another country, away from this war
Essay
Isabella Hammad
On Gaza, ruins and mourning
Translation
Afrizal Malna
What have Indonesia’s revolutions done for the poor?
Essay
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
A Cuban writer contemplates his new life in America, as Washington puts the island under siege once again
Argument
Séamus Malekafzali
The war on Iran and the Israelisation of America
Memoir
Nasser Abu Srour
Surviving torture and brutality inside Israel’s prisons
Essay
Maria Stepanova
How Russia’s new generation of political exiles is redefining what it means to lose a homeland
Conversation
Narges Bajoghli
A conversation with Narges Bajoghli about Iran’s new generation of meme warriors
Essay
Rahmane Idrissa
When the American Dream came to Africa
Conversation
Zhang Weiwei
How elites in Beijing view the collapse of American hegemony
Conversation
Barnaby Raine
What the mainstream gets wrong about antisemitism
Essay
Juan Villoro
For Mexican fans, disillusionment begins at home
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
Symposium
Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran by Naghmeh Sohrabi, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj and Dominik Leusder
Conversation
Antonio Spadaro
A Vatican adviser explains how the Pope became the most formidable critic of the algorithmic age
Translation
José Henrique Bortoluci
Devastation and resistance in Brazil’s most dangerous region
Argument
Sahar Delijani
Generations of organisers and dissidents have kept the Iranian struggle alive
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
Argument
Adom Getachew
Why my Ethiopian relatives voted for Trump
Memoir
Amir Ahmadi Arian
Feasting and warring in Tehran
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
Reportage
Osman Samiuddin
The cricketing legend is Pakistan’s most famous man. Can the state make him vanish?
Gatherings
Benjamin Moser
A lost book by the Brazilian novelist
Dispatch
Sondos Sabra
In Gaza City, people are slowly returning, pitching their tents over the ashes of homes
Dispatch
Li Tian
My life as a durian influencer
Symposium
Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran
Reportage
Na Zhong
The Silicon Valley killing that exposed the new fault lines in Chinese society
Symposium
Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran by Maryam Tafakory, Sinan Antoon, Selim Koru and Rahmane Idrissa
Reportage
Joe Sacco
Why an Indian publisher dropped Joe Sacco’s new book on a riot in north India
Conversation
Neelanjan Sircar
The last bastions of resistance to Narendra Modi’s BJP are falling
