Review

Drawn and Quartered

By Hunter Braithwaite July 18, 2017

Sarah Sentilles’s new book offers a meditation on war, art, torture, and memory.

ConflictLit World

Interview

Aurora De Armendi: Where Is the Center of the Ocean?

By Meaghan Winter June 5, 2017

The Cuban American artist on migration, detention, and what it means to ask open-ended questions.

Arts & CultureConflict

Photography

The Road to Tel Afar

By Salar Abdoh May 29, 2017

Following the Hashd al-Shaabi, the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq fighting ISIS, I’d become more superstitious in small ways—and the more superstitious I became, the more I feared loss.

ConflictMENA

AudioPoetry

Subterfuge

By Mai Der Vang May 22, 2017

Maybe you spiked the dirt / With your snare of shivers.

Conflict

Essay

Architecture of Persecution

By Hari Kunzru May 22, 2017

The 4000-year-old city of Jerusalem's rich archeological history is weaponized against Palestinians.

ConflictMENA

Interview

Thana Faroq: The Streets Are Not Empty

By Joanna Naples-Mitchell May 6, 2017

The photographer and visual storyteller on daily life during conflict in Yemen, the necessity of conversation, and why she’s not a war photographer.

Arts & CultureConflictMENA

Photography

The Closed Balkan Route

By Marko Drobnjakovic May 3, 2017

Photographer Marko Drobnjakovic captures migrants seeking shelter in central Belgrade, Serbia.

ConflictEurope

Essay

Three Minutes to Midnight

By Edward McPherson May 1, 2017

Adventures in Los Angeles and apocalypse: a city on the cusp of nirvana, the next big thing, or falling into the sea.

Climate & EnvironmentConflict

Commentary

Atonement and Sacrifice

By Alejandro Merlín, translated from the Spanish by Charlotte Whittle April 18, 2017

On the discovery of mass graves, and the importance of naming the dead, from Greek mythology to the so-called War on Drugs.

ConflictHistoryMENA

Essay

Sacrifice

By Robin Mallory Allnutt April 12, 2017

Returning to grieve.

The Kiss ConflictFamily & Relationships

Interview

Alia Malek: Breaking Through the Din

By Alexia Underwood April 10, 2017

On the writer's new memoir, the conflict in Syria, and the importance of storytelling in moments of crisis.

ConflictHistoryMENAPolitics