Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco Reportage
Daniel Trilling
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
Surrealism Against Fascism Essay
Naomi Klein
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
Statemania Essay
Rahmane Idrissa
When the American Dream came to Africa
Caste and Chappals Translation
Chandu Maheriya
What leather footwear reveals about discrimination against Dalits
Pity and Fear Essay
Hisham Matar
What images of cruelty reveal about the limits of power
From the editors
The theme that unites our first stories is the passing of a grand illusion: the illusion that the whole world was on a trajectory, however delayed or disrupted, toward Western modernity. That history had a direction – and America stood at its terminus, beckoning others forward.
This illusion was never entirely believed, even by those who professed it most loudly. But it shaped the desires and aspirations of people everywhere; it constrained what could be imagined, demanded and built.
Today, the American model persists, but in a diminished form – as merely one option among others, and no longer inevitable. And this shift, from destiny to choice, from universal to particular, marks the true end of the illusion. What remains is not collapse but something far stranger.
The launch of Equator explores many facets of this transformation – how it feels, what it means, where it leads. Together, they map a world learning to imagine itself beyond the coordinates that once seemed permanent. This is where we begin.
The Xi Jinping School of Journalism Memoir
Soyonbo Borjgin
The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter
Farewell to Podemos Memoir
Lilith Verstrynge
My decision to quit politics at 31
We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves Essay
Benjamin Moser
How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide
Clippings 1/3
Two Years of Genocide Dispatch
Sondos Sabra
In Gaza City, people are slowly returning, pitching their tents over the ashes of homes
Boyhood Memoir
Yuri Slezkine
What I learnt from the Soviet Adventure Library
Murder House Reportage
Na Zhong
The Silicon Valley killing that exposed the new fault lines in Chinese society
When Your Father Dies of AIDS Fiction
Oksana Vasyakina
An excerpt from the novel Steppe
Two Poems Poetry
Michael Hofmann
29.10.2025
The Coast Photo Essay
Sohrab Hura
All photographs from Sohrab Hura’s series The Coast (2013–2019).
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