Why did he come to the city? He was not yet ready to return to the one
Fiction | by Wayne Johnston
A US-brokered deal to forgive billions in Iraqi debt is causing other countries to say “me too,” even as some Iraqis wish they’d said “no thanks.”
Politics | by Paul Webster
Can Jim Harris rescue the environment by mainstreaming the Greens?
Politics | by Murray Dobbin
A mega file-sharing protocol called BitTorrent is making the music piracy of yesteryear look like petty theft.
Technology | by Matthew McKinnon
Tariq Ali’s Islam Quintet paints a softer face on the historical interactions between Muslims and the West
Books | by Charles Foran
Turkey’s most famous writer evokes his country’s schizophrenic past and its struggle with Islam’s place in day-to-day life.
Books | by Randy Boyagoda
Hollywood know-how is helping to create new kinds of military weapons that target the brain—but not with a bullet.
Culture | by Jake MacDonald
Fiction | by Yiorgos Skardonis, translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich