Hernán Hoyos: The Sex Scribe of Cali
Kurt Hollander profiles the pioneering Hernán Hoyos, a breaker of literary taboos in Cali, Colombia.
Kurt Hollander profiles the pioneering Hernán Hoyos, a breaker of literary taboos in Cali, Colombia.
Kurt HollanderJan 16, 2022
Peter Pomerantsev ponders Vladimir Putin’s murky intentions towards Ukraine while confronting the uncertainty of a COVID.
Peter PomerantsevJan 10, 2022
The tale of a Persian Robin Hood who hoodwinks his enemies yet keeps a stern moral code.
Kevin BlankinshipJan 9, 2022
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.
Sam KahnDec 31, 2021
Into what system are migrants welcomed? What are the prescriptions of the request?
Chris CampanioniDec 31, 2021
Grappling with Hong Kong’s present and future via a bumper crop of fiction and poetry.
Andrea LingenfelterDec 23, 2021
Oliver Farry hears out “Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language” by James Griffiths.
Oliver FarryDec 21, 2021
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...
Akua BanfulDec 14, 2021
What creates conditions for a dictatorship? The daily indignities that force people to turn to a messiah-despot.
Liesl SchwabeDec 12, 2021
Nafeesa Syeed interviews Farah Bashir about her book about growing up female in the 1990s during the war in Kashmir, “Rumours of Spring.”
Nafeesa SyeedNov 30, 2021
Jessica Namakkal interrogates the settler colonial impulses behind 20th-century utopias like Auroville, India.
Jessica NamakkalNov 28, 2021
A journey of self-discovery into the complexities and sufferings of a divided nation.
MG VassanjiNov 18, 2021
Jason Christian finds “The Kindness of Strangers,” the new travelogue from Tom Lutz.
Jason ChristianNov 15, 2021
Anthony Morreale reconsiders the literature of South Vietnam.
Anthony MorrealeNov 11, 2021
Aidan Forth reviews two new books by Darren Byler, “In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony” and “Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and...
Aidan ForthNov 8, 2021
The formidable Ludmilla Petrushevskaya enchants with her toughness of spirit in this March 2021 interview.
Katerina Gordeeva, Jane BugaevaNov 4, 2021
Lev Nachman on two books about China in the 1980s: Isabella Weber’s “How China Escaped Shock Therapy” and Jeremy Brown’s “June Fourth.”
Lev NachmanNov 4, 2021
Nathan Scott McNamara interviews editor Valerie Miles about Granta’s list of Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists.
Nathan Scott McNamaraNov 3, 2021
A prominent scholar and dissident speaks out about Myanmar’s military rule.
Tom Zoellner, Aida BaghernejadOct 25, 2021
Claire Kohda delves into “In Ghostly Japan: Japanese Legends of Ghosts, Yokai, Yurei and Other Oddities” by Lafcadio Hearn.
Claire KohdaOct 21, 2021
Sonia Faleiro reviews the new book by Laura T. Murphy, “Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt.”
Sonia FaleiroOct 11, 2021
Minjie Chen on “Monkey King: Journey to the West” by Wu Cheng’en, translated by Julia Lovell.
Minjie ChenOct 5, 2021
Joe Amendola talks with Michael Cooperson about his translation of al-Ḥarīrī’s “Impostures,” available now from NYU Press.
Joe AmendolaOct 4, 2021
Pratinav Anil and Arvind Rajagopal exchange letters to the editor in response to Rajagopal’s review of Christophe Jaffrelot and Anil’s “India’s First...
Pratinav Anil, Arvind RajagopalOct 3, 2021