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Translator Issue #4 brings you compelling stories from beyond the Anglosphere, translated from Arabic, Icelandic, Czech, Ukrainian and more. Read about the dark afterlife of Yemen's mummies, the journey of Chinese trans women seeking gender-affirming surgery in Thailand, and the hidden underworld of cannabis farming in Finland. Illustrated by artists from around the world. Plus: Reviews, a Photo Essay, our Street Talks and Crossword.

Featured Articles

When hate reaches the school gates

Guro Middle School is on the frontline of a war on immigrants waged by Korea's far-right...

A Shaman’s survival in modern China

In a China racing toward the future one reluctant young shaman fights to honour the ancient spirits that refuse to let him go...

Volkswagen Slave labour at Amazon cattle Ranch

In one of Brazil's most severe human rights cases, Volkswagen stands accused of luring hundreds of rural workers into brutal slavery between 1974 and 1986. Facing allegations, the automaker must...

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Street Talk

A cafe of one’s own

In a bright café and library in Baalbek, a city perched on the Syrian border, far from the pulsing heart of Lebanon’s capital Beirut, women gathered to share stories free...

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Society & Culture

Clean Girl only for whites?

Brazil’s Revista AzMina takes on the popular lifestyle aesthetic. From pristine centre-partings to no-makeup looks, the clean girl aesthetic epitomises a sense of impeccable, natural elegance. Think of 1990’s American icon Carolyn...

A requiem for Salzburg’s Mozart balls?

The city contends with the end of local industrial production of the chocolate delight. Two hundred and thirty-three years after the death of Austria’s most famous composer and his burial...

Class war in Cortina

Fashion and fascism in the Dolomites “White is the colour of purity, of cleanliness, of calm, of ironed shirts and weddings, of linen tablecloths and holiness”, writes Caterina de Biaisio in Rivista Studio:...

Whitewashing the German countryside?

A French take on the rise of the ‘ecologically minded’ extreme-right in Germany Evil doesn’t die; it reinvents itself. Following the worrying results of last September’s local elections in Saxony—where...

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To celebrate, we’re having a late summer party, featuring readings and performances by multidisciplinary artist Sirui Chang (aka rapper Princess Xixi, writer and journalist Francisco García, author and translator Kaisa Saarinen and music by Mariia Petrovska.

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