Border Economies, Broken Lives In Kashmir, a chaos of trade, smuggling, and surveillance shapes the “cold peace” between India and Pakistan
What is the DOGE? The debt, the DOGE, and the crisis of competence in an era of rising “national conservatism”
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.
The Absence of the Future At the Venice Biennale, architecture has no vision of the future but gadgets, gimmicks, and climate doom
Back PagesOnlineThe Triple ReviewWell That Doesn’t Sound Like Fun On boredom, board games, and Debord Elizabeth Sandifer
Back PagesOnlineProfilesFigure and Frame Safi Faye's films invert the ethnologer's gaze on rural life in Senegal Matene Toure
Back PagesIssue 4Steamroomography An annotated guide to gay cruising in New York City steam rooms Shaan Sachdev
Back PagesOnlineProfilesEgypt’s Season of Starlets In the 1940s and 1950s, all of Egypt was transfixed by the divas of its rising film and radio industries Rami Soudah
Back PagesIssue 4ProfilesThe Importance of Being Hermes The occult spiritual practice of Oscar Wilde O.F. Cieri
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