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Society & Cultures

How the right’s obsession with the maranza was born

How a once-playful slang term became Italy’s newest racialised public enemy
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A lament for Yemen’s cultural renaissance

A rich civic culture was built in Yemen in the 1970s. Much of it has now been dismantled.
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Beauty and martyrdom

How aesthetic pressure sickens and isolates gay men
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Who owns the story?

Behind the soaring profits of Sweden’s publishing giants, lies a bitter power struggle
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War and faith

An evangelical preacher’s journey from the world of crime to the kingdom of Jesus
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Obsessed with the mess

Searching Belgium’s secondhand shops for forgotten treasures
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Annah, Infinite

Fairuza Hanun reviews Khairani Barokka's defiant interpretation of the long overlooked stories embedded in Gaugin's famous painting
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Jakarta: The price of belonging in Indonesia’s restless city

In a city where nothing is free, residents daily reckon with the cost of grief
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Hanoi: The scent of memory in Vietnam’s river-nested capital

Mapping the city and treasured memories through its smells
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Guadalajara: The shifting heartbeat of Mexico’s neighborhoods

In Santa Tere, gentrification looms threatening one of the city's last traditional neighbourhoods
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Yakutsk: Soft communal resistance between talks, ghosts and fake Labubus

The frost arrived early, foreshadowing the quiet end to public education. Resistance here isn't shouted; it's whispered through counterfeit Labubu toys and the wry irony of survivalist memes.
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How three young dutchmen cornered the nitrous oxide market

Nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, is an illegal drug in the Netherlands. Yet Dutch streets are inundated with empty canisters, often labelled “FastGas”. Where do the canisters come from, and
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