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

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

I Left My Sorrows in the Laundry Basin Poetry

Haidar Al-Ghazali

When Your Father Dies of AIDS Fiction

Oksana Vasyakina

An excerpt from the novel Steppe

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

Michael Hofmann

Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco Reportage

Daniel Trilling

How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart

We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves Essay

Benjamin Moser

How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide

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

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

Gaza Notes Artist Project

Nan Goldin with David Sherman

Scenes from the destruction of a people

‘We Can't Live Like This Anymore’ Dispatch

Naghmeh Sohrabi

Messages from Iran

Boyhood Memoir

Yuri Slezkine

What I learnt from the Soviet Adventure Library

‘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

Beyond the Apocalypse Argument

Amitav Ghosh

How visions of catastrophe shape the ‘climate solutions’ imposed by aid agencies

Pity and Fear Essay

Hisham Matar

What images of cruelty reveal about the limits of power

Farewell to Podemos Memoir

Lilith Verstrynge

My decision to quit politics at 31

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?

King of the Aral Sea Translation

Liu Zichao

A Central Asian travelogue

How I Became Yugoslav Argument

Ante Andabak

In the pages of a defunct satirical magazine, I learned to loathe the nationalism that raised me

Caste and Chappals Translation

Chandu Maheriya

What leather footwear reveals about discrimination against Dalits

Statemania Essay

Rahmane Idrissa

When the American Dream came to Africa

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

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

‘He’s an African Leader’ Argument

Adom Getachew

Why my Ethiopian relatives voted for Trump

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

The Hidden Imran Reportage

Osman Samiuddin

The cricketing legend is Pakistan’s most famous man. Can the state make him vanish?

Two Years of Genocide Dispatch

Sondos Sabra

In Gaza City, people are slowly returning, pitching their tents over the ashes of homes

Murder House Reportage

Na Zhong

The Silicon Valley killing that exposed the new fault lines in Chinese society

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