culture

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 –...

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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