Blood Sport: The Ultras White Knights vs. Mortada Mansour
Egypt’s Ultras White Knights — a group of hard-core football fans — are locked in a bitter contest with politician Mortada Mansour, one of Egypt’s...
Egypt’s Ultras White Knights — a group of hard-core football fans — are locked in a bitter contest with politician Mortada Mansour, one of Egypt’s...
Patrick KeddieDec 10, 2014
Uyghur history as everyman’s history.
Nile GreenDec 3, 2014
The Philippines is the country most likely to be hit by our near future’s apocalyptic storms.
Lara StapletonDec 2, 2014
In Imelda Marcos's tawdry discotheque.
Gina ApostolDec 2, 2014
New from "Around the World"
Helen MackreathNov 20, 2014
"New from Around the World"
John YargoOct 11, 2014
Stories of excess, love, passion, splendor, and death. Plenty of death.
John ZadaOct 3, 2014
Those who go to Patna expecting dismal conditions will find them, but these are neither the only realities nor the most important ones.
David BoykOct 3, 2014
Why has the Afghanistan war produced almost no poetry or fiction, compared to the multiplicity of war writing from Iraq?
Brian CastnerOct 2, 2014
Whether it’s the World Cup or the Olympics, in London, Tokyo, or Rio de Janeiro, mega events are about real estate.
Christopher GaffneyOct 1, 2014
It’s the executive branch, stupid.
M. Nazif ShahraniSep 21, 2014
Publishers have decided Western readers want cliché-heavy, lunch-buffet fiction that’s easy to digest and doesn’t contain too many weird ingredients.
Jabeen AkhtarSep 20, 2014
New from "Around the World"
Jeffrey ZuckermanSep 19, 2014
Golf is prohibited in China, so the party leaders play under fake names and the 100 new golf courses a year are called eco/fitness centers.
Maura Elizabeth CunninghamSep 15, 2014
A Korean take on the dirty business of the Vietnam War.
John FefferSep 8, 2014
In his most recent novel, acclaimed Nepali American writer Samrat Upadhyay brings the conflict between village and city to life in the form of a...
Oindrila MukherjeeSep 1, 2014
Dogs in South African politics, culture, and literature.
Imraan CoovadiaAug 29, 2014
Co-writing on opposite sides of the world.
Joyce YarrowAug 23, 2014
New from "Around the World"
Andrea MammoneAug 19, 2014
"New from Around the World"
Helen MackreathAug 17, 2014
From "Around the World"
Macduff EvertonJul 31, 2014
From "Around the World"
Mathilde Walter ClarkJul 29, 2014
102 dead, 600 injured
Ben EhrenreichJul 11, 2014
WANG ANYI is one of China’s best-known writers, a reputation she cemented with her novel The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (1995).
Anjum HasanDec 21, 2013