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The Literary Voice of Vodou

An exploration of Vodou as a system of thought and a means of understanding the world through Haitian poetry and literature Vodou, at its core, is a religion of oral...

Epistolary Exiles

Uncovering long lost letters written during Brazil’s military dictatorship Journalism’s dirty secret isn’t always nepotism. Sometimes, it’s luck! This couldn’t hold any more true for the Lisbon-based journalist, researcher and...

With the Warrior Poet in Burma

A French journalist visits a rebel leader who has swapped words for guns in his fight against the military regime In Burma, notes journalist Guillaume Pajot in an article for Revue XXI, “poetry...

Dollars and Sense

Why the election of Donald Trump in the United States has turned into an existential crisis for independent media in Latin America How do democracies die? Quickly, or slowly? In...

The Medium and the Message

In the Jubilee year 2025, an Italian journalist explores how the Vatican is using digital tools and AI to proselytise anew The gap between earth below and heaven above, between...

Travelling the Cherry State

“In January, at the approach of winter, I braved the extreme cold to travel by motorbike to Taunggyi,” writes a local journalist in their travelogue for the independent Burmese news...

Militarised Messianism

A French journalist explores how far-right religious factions are challenging the Israeli army from inside “In the history of Israel, the army has never been factional”: writes French journalist Sylvain...

Making borscht in Tokyo

One of Japan’s leading daily newspapers tracks down the Ukrainian refugees seven time zones away from home If you happen to be in Tokyo next Thursday afternoon, you might consider...

Hard Sell, Soft Sell

An Italian journalist explores the links between the iconic telemarketers of the 1980s and selling online today There’s a scene in Paolo Sorrentino’s 2018 film Loro in which a character bearing an...

The pain and the beauty

A French journalist talks about his time as a hostage in Mali, and how he sees the future Oliver Dubois tried to escape from his captors in Mali four times....

Canute’s Comeuppance

The anniversary of a historic Danish flood provokes a journey into history, maps, climate and the future Humanity has long struggled with the question of how much it is master...

Lou Reed in Brazil

Black and white photographs in a Brazilian market send a writer down a rabbit hole into music legend The Brazilian city of Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas...

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