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Hernán Hoyos: The Sex Scribe of Cali
Kurt Hollander profiles the pioneering Hernán Hoyos, a breaker of literary taboos in Cali, Colombia.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Vladimir COVID: A Virtual Diary in a Week of Virtual War
Peter Pomerantsev ponders Vladimir Putin’s murky intentions towards Ukraine while confronting the uncertainty of a COVID.
Feast and Fight: A New Adaptation of “Samak the Ayar”
The tale of a Persian Robin Hood who hoodwinks his enemies yet keeps a stern moral code.
“Assa”: The Film that Brought Down the Soviet Union
Sam Kahn looks back at “Assa,” the 1987 cult film that put Soviet rock on the map. Its director, Sergei Solovyov, died on December 13, 2021.
The Camp and the City (Eastern Times/Western Times)
Into what system are migrants welcomed? What are the prescriptions of the request?
Evocative Accounts of Soon-to-Vanish Sites: Recent — and Not So Recent — Hong Kong Poetry and Prose
Grappling with Hong Kong’s present and future via a bumper crop of fiction and poetry.
Linguistic Diversity in the Shadows of Empires: On James Griffiths’s “Speak Not”
Oliver Farry hears out “Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language” by James Griffiths.
Nobody Likes Dolphin Meat, but Times Are Hard
This story makes landfall, is beached, on April 4, 2021, but, really, the story begins earlier still: with the Atlantic Slave Trade and its long afterlives.
A Portrait and a Mirror: On “To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism”
What creates conditions for a dictatorship? The daily indignities that force people to turn to a messiah-despot.
The “Brave Face” of Kashmiri Women: A Conversation with Farah Bashir
Nafeesa Syeed interviews Farah Bashir about her book about growing up female in the 1990s during the war in Kashmir, “Rumours of Spring.”
Utopia’s Settler Colonialism Problem
Jessica Namakkal interrogates the settler colonial impulses behind 20th-century utopias like Auroville, India.
“A Stroke of Ink Drawn by the Departing Empire”: On Suchitra Vijayan’s “Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India”
A journey of self-discovery into the complexities and sufferings of a divided nation.
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