Dispatch № 26s

One must cultivate one’s own garden

In a working-class suburb of Paris, a decades-old allotment area is under threat. The fight to save the Jardins ouvriers des Vertus is more than just a tussle between gardeners

And so it flows

Sophia Smith Galer looks at an article, and a doctoral thesis, about the Venetian-origin dialect once prevalent in the city of Fiume/Rijeka, now ever more endangered Cities where many languages

Inside Vietnam’s biggest stock market scandal

Once hailed as a national business icon, Trịnh Văn Quyết built a billion-dollar empire through real estate and aviation. But behind the scenes, he was orchestrating one of Vietnam’s largest

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