An Interview with Jafar Panahi
Our correspondent met with the great Iranian director to get his thoughts on political cinema, what it means to go back behind the camera, and what gets lost in translation.
Silent Flight
A verse translation and commentary on the Zhuangzi, a classic of Chinese philosophy
Rose Novick and Zhuangzi
Why Racists Lose Wars
History is full of ethnically divided armies. A recent study quantifies their disastrous track record.
The Absence of the Future
At the Venice Biennale, architecture has no vision of the future but gadgets, gimmicks, and climate doom
Indie Squeeze
An elegy for the indie games rennaissance — and prospects for the future
Applying a New Foundation, Geopolitically
What the spread of East Asia’s beauty trends reveals about the region’s soft power influence.
