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Summariess

Every week, we publish three summaries of longer articles which have caught our eye in media beyond the Anglosphere, selected and summarised by our team, regular contributors, and guest editors – including stories recommended to us by you, our readers.

Find our summary archive below with links to the original pieces; sign up for our free newsletter Overheard to receive new summaries of articles from around the world as they come in each week; and recommend articles that have caught your eye by writing or messaging us direct.

The “knowing child” against the cult of innocence

A meditation on socialist Yugoslavia’s radical tradition of children’s literature was and why it matters today
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The quinoa bubble

How Bolivia's superfood boom has turned sour
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The vanishing fishermen of the Danube Delta

How poaching, monopolies, and institutional failure are emptying Europe’s largest wetland
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When your doctor is an algorithm

How AI is reshaping Spanish healthcare
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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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Why the Italian right has taken the “Family in the Woods” to heart

How a custody case in rural Abruzzo became a vehicle for nostalgia, anti-modernism, and a political war on the judiciary
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Venice is a video game

How the smart-city dream collides with the lagoon’s unruly, ungovernable heart
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How tribal power shapes politics in Iraqi Kurdistan

A deep investigation into the clan networks that bind Kurdistan’s political life
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A new era of espionage dawns in Brazil

A massive data leak has revealed the widespread use of spyware app originally marketed as a parental control tool
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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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Remaining barbaric

How personal darkness becomes a theory of class, race and aesthetic rebellion
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Indonesia’s nickel frontier

How a global green boom is rearranging lives, land and power
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