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Magazine Issue #4s

What the glacier won’t remember

Elhum Shakerifar reviews a savagely lyrical new documentary on the disappearance of Iceland's icescapes, based on the book by Andri Snær Magnason
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Beyond the steppe

Photographs from Algeria’s unfolding eco-crisis
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Searching for the promised land

Following the Chinese transgender women journeying to Thailand in pursuit of life-changing surgeries
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Over our dead bodies

How a mine has become a rallying cry for a rural Serbian community – and wider national protests
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Castle in the clouds

Finland’s strict drug laws have put a cannabis farmer behind bars – but he feels he’s done nothing wrong
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Warabi: The world arrives at my hometown

Reflections from a recent émigré from Japan's international town
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Palermo: An undercover polentona

A conversation overheard on Italy's 'Meridian Question' sparks a deeper internal debate on identity and what it means to be Italian
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Amdo: The Wings of Tibetan Hip Hop

The Tibetan rap song that took over the Chinese internet
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Nairobi: The daily chant of political resistance

New words emerge to describe, in slang, the memes and forms of expressing political opinions: terms filled with truth and demands
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Baalbek: A café of one’s own

In a bright café and library on the Syrian border, women gathered to share stories free from the presence of men.
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Holes in the socks of our enemies

In the midst of Russia’s war on Ukraine, a reporter follows Ukrainian volunteers on a dangerous mission to retrieve the bodies of fallen soldiers – and their enemies
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One last stroll through Hanoi’s alleyway markets

Makeshift markets across Vietnam are being shut down – and with them, the bonds that hold communities together
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