In Egypt, the Drying Up of Dissent
May 7, 2018
Recounting the past of the Eastern Desert is my only refuge given the dire constraints of the present.
Henry Peck
Paul Bowles & the Music of Morocco
December 23, 2016
The writer’s archive of traditional Moroccan music finds a new outlet.
Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami: Mirror from Damascus
September 22, 2016
In a war that remains unfinished, two Syrian-British writers acknowledge and affirm those whose stories and lives may be lost in its course.
Fred Kaplan: Signal Aspect
May 26, 2016
Henry Peck interviews Fred Kaplan about the shadowy world of cyber war.
Cynan Jones: Burrow Down
August 3, 2015
The Welsh novelist on badger baiting, human resonance in the natural world, and why he holds his breath while writing.
Grayson Perry: Social Fabric
June 15, 2015
Boundaries of Taste: The Turner Prize-winning “transvestite potter” on the taste tribes of Britain.
A Non-Place by the Sea
December 23, 2014
When a storm destroyed Dhanushkodi, the government ordered it emptied. Fifty years later, we meet the people who stayed.
Ben Wizner: Pull Back to Reveal
October 1, 2014
The privacy advocate and legal advisor to Edward Snowden on today’s surveillance empire.
Elliott Colla: Grays in the Emerald City
August 15, 2014
As Iraq faces a new crisis, the novel Baghdad Central explores the freighted “moment of ambiguity” a decade earlier.
Valerie June: Sound Medicine
March 17, 2014
The “moonshine roots” musician on the magnetism of Southern music, learning to sing in church, and the timbre of the Tennessee landscape.
