Kyle Lucia Wu interviews Jade Sharma about her new book and its focus on addition, prostitution, and the power of honesty and humor.

The journalist on reporting from a post-revolutionary Iran and tracing the rich ferment of its intellectual and social history.

What we don't talk about when we talk about HIV and AIDS.

Yahdon Israel talks to Michael Salu about moving between texts and images

An excerpt from Ellis Avery's upcoming book of essays, The Family Tooth.

Michelle García speaks to Cristina Henríquez about her latest novel

Europe has the capacity to receive refugees, they just don't want to.

“The radical creative act of freeing the inner, and outer, child.”

The inspiration that comes when facing a terminal illness.

Jonathan Weisman on his new novel No. 4 Imperial Lane and a family history that might make you feel better about your own.

On the sublime in Sally Mann, the painful reminders of Nan Goldin, and the impossibility of understanding the past.

The former New York gubernatorial candidate on misperceptions of big government, the poetry of politics, and why “it would be a tragedy if [Hillary] ran in an uncontested primary.”

The trans author and journalist on masculinity and male privilege, writing about the body, and crafting new narratives about gender identities.

Being an immigrant made me feel different, but it was the color of my skin that marked me as suspect.

As the powers that be dismantle what remains of Hong Kong's mass protest movement, thoughts on winners and losers and the city's future.

The politics of Picasso, Sartre, prose, and poetry.

Daring to celebrate an egalitarian tradition.

In Arizona, the Samaritans are working to provide water and aid to immigrants crossing the border—in spite of sabotaged water bottles and harassment from border patrol.

Making a run for it through El Salvador’s violent and burning streets, before curfew begins.

Punitive justice won't bring back Michael Brown--or Eric Garner or Tamir Rice or Trayvon Martin or John Crawford. Why unraveling systemic racism starts with communities, not courts.

Hilary Mantel’s The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher offers the same lesson to matter public and private: it could always have been otherwise.

Reflections on jazz, improvisation, and the New Orleans Jazz Fest, 2014.

On the eve of Contemporary Istanbul, Rachel Friedman talks with one of Turkey’s most controversial artists about performance, process, and what happens when your art makes you a target.

Trauma, death, and forgiveness on the front lines of American life.

ISIS and the sadistic theater of learned helplessness.

A response to Elif Batuman’s “Marriage is an Abduction.”

Lara Zarum interviews the author of "The Teacher Wars" on the history of education reform and the future of teaching.

In Hong Kong, participatory democracy fights the forces of inertia and autocracy.

Lara Zarum talks to Steele, director of the documentary Hunted, about his experience following Russia’s brutal anti-gay vigilante groups.

As protests continue in Hong Kong, pro-Beijing forces threaten the movement for self-determination.

Guernica's staff collects some facts and figures on who has the power (and the money) in America today.

Flash Fiction: she told me that at one i reached out and struck his closed right hand with my fat unsteady palm.

Andrew Rose talks to Courtney Moreno about her new novel, the specter of PTSD, and hazing in medicine.

Readpolitik The future worlds of David Mitchell and Emily St. John Mandel.

We think using harsh prison punishment makes us safer. It doesn’t.

Kevin became interesting only after the night he walked me home, committed his crime, and called the police.

An environmental opportunity where the Danube River meets the Black Sea.

Nathalie Handal talks to Kareem James Abu-Zeid about translating the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish and conveying the layered politics and fluid identities found in his work.

On Sunday, Turkey will elect a president by direct popular vote for the first time, choosing between drastically different visions for their political system.

Dispatch from Gaza: What is there to do but push back with a bit of stubborn strength, scratch at the thing with your bare fingernails, while your veins still have blood in them?

How to save the iconic west from the cow.

Andrew Rose interviews cartoonist/reviewer Kevin Thomas on distilling 1,000 pages into nine graphic panels.

A mother's bangles as a proxy for her presence, for her love.

A review of Lost For Words that's also a comic strip.

The River Kwai passes through Latin America and Washington.

Choreographed War and Other Aspects of the World’s Greatest Game

On bridging the gap between Western fact and Chinese experience, twenty-five years after the June Fourth Incident.

Class in America: Seven writers, editors, and thinkers discuss how class divides Americans today and what we can do to fix America's inequality problem.

Ari Shavit as harbinger of Israel’s new hard sell to American Jews.

The more late night talk shows stick with white, male hosts, the more obsolete they become in today’s America.

The inaugural poet on writing through cultural dualities, the pleasure of bilingualism, and why “the poem is a kind of mathematical proof.”

Veterans of Guatemala’s long civil war recover the secret archive of the National Police, pulling together the missing parts of the past.

A quarter-life crisis during Mardi Gras, the Soviet Union right after it crumbles, and the murders in Mexico in 1990s are definitely things to write home about. Or to write books about.