Magazine Issue #3

Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood

Translator reviews an established Japanese translator’s debut novel and Boris Dralyuks’s translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic poem....

Tehran: The price of now; spiralling inflation and currency collapse

The price of yesterday's bread is already a distant memory. Explore the dark humor and quiet desperation of a trapped society watching its currency endlessly collapse....

Karachi: Surveillance, panic and chaos: the price the people pay for safer streets

New AI traffic cameras peer down on crumbling, flooded streets. This costly digital dragnet has sparked mass paranoia, breeding far more absurd bureaucratic farce than actual civic order....

Kyoto: Zen and the art of being a tour guide

Experience Kyoto through a local tour guide’s eyes. Get to know how ancient Zen gardens beautifully reflect our deepest, unspoken inner emotions....

Gaza: How genocide has transformed the daily lexicon

War dismantles more than just skylines; it rewires the very architecture of language. In Gaza, ordinary Arabic words have been hollowed out and repurposed to map a devastating new reality....

Bangalore: The many tongues heard at midnight in the backseat of a cab

When the gloss of Bangalore strips away at three in the morning, restless cabs become rolling confessionals, where a symphony of borrowed tongues echoes the rawest survival economics....

When hate reaches the school gates

Guro Middle School is on the frontline of a war on immigrants waged by Korea's far-right...

Digitising Urdu’s cascading calligraphy

An interview with Abeera Kamran and Zeerak Ahmed, by Sophia Smith Galer...

Refugees welcome

A journalist catches up with the “nicest people” in the far-right, anti-immigrant German AfD party – people with an immigrant background themselves. Orfeo Laudi shakes his head. “The overwhelming majority...

Gaming behind the iron curtain

From the Rubik’s Cube to Ecco the Dolphin: meet the programmers from Hungary and former Comecon countries who helped shape a generation of video games By now, there’s a library’s...

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