Dispatch № 5s

From Bentleys to bombs

A Russian writer traces the country’s political culture back to the films and books of the 2000s Are the cultural artefacts of a particular place at a particular time –

BFF – Best Fandom Forever?!

A love letter to the V-Pop fandom culture in Vietnam Absence makes the heart grow fonder —or so, it seems! When Vietnam’s Yeah1 media group announced the discontinuation of two of

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

Culture behind bars

On the margins of Tunisia’s largest film festival, a journalist looks at the challenges to an ongoing experiment in the country’s prisons December 2024 in Tunis, Cité de Culture: “The

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