In Other Words
Pakistan the Unreal
A son's tale of a death ripped from the headlines -- and the novel that foretold it.
BY AATISH TASEER | JAN/FEB 2012
True to Life
From Vietnam to Pakistan, writers have long turned to fiction to make sense of the news, often yielding uncanny portraits of real-life war, revolution, and cultural change. Here, Foreign Policy offers a sampler of novels that could have been straight out of the newspapers -- and sometimes even made them.
BY MARGARET SLATTERY | JAN/FEB 2012
Written on the Wall
A tumultuous year, told through the scrawls and murals of the people living through it.
NARRATED BY ROGER GASTMAN | NOVEMBER 2011
Revolution in a Can
Graffiti is as American as apple pie, but much easier to export.
BY BLAKE GOPNIK | NOVEMBER 2011
The Ultimate AfPak Reading List
A guide to the most critical readings on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
BY PETER BERGEN | OCTOBER 6, 2011
The Skeletons in Deng's Closet
The new biography of the man who really transformed China is the most complete and ambitious ever. But does it leave out some black spots?
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
Dear Uncle Sam…
Why do India and Pakistan see America in such opposite ways?
BY PANKAJ MISHRA | SEPT/OCT 2011
America the Brutiful
Yanks are starring on foreign screens -- and it ain't a pretty sight.
BY MICHAEL IDOV | SEPT/OCT 2011
900 Channels of the Great Satan
In Iran's latest TV obsession, the Ugly American is -- themselves.
BY AZADEH MOAVENI | SEPT/OCT 2011
How'd We Do Covering the Revolution?
Looking back with a generous dose of humility.
BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN | JULY/AUGUST 2011
The Far Side of the Soviet Moon
Ten of Russia's most disturbing unsolved mysteries.
BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN | JULY/AUGUST 2011
An Eerie Silence
Why is it so hard for South Africa to talk about AIDS?
BY JONNY STEINBERG | MAY/JUNE 2011
Get Lost
A new book explores the roots of deep travel -- as necessary for Manhattan homebodies as for madcap foreign correspondents.
BY PAUL SALOPEK | MARCH 28, 2011
Arab Revolutions Through the WikiLeaks Lens
Looking back, what did we really know -- and what did we just think we knew?
BY GRAEME WOOD | MARCH 9, 2011
Cable News
What is WikiLeaks really trying to tell us? We asked eminent historians and scholars to take the long view on these startling documents.
MARCH/APRIL 2011
A Short History of Secrecy
Think Julian Assange is sui generis? He's just one in a long line of agents provocateurs, stretching back through Trotsky to the Greeks.
BY MARGARET MACMILLAN | MARCH/APRIL 2011
Anatomy of a Honey Trap
What if the hidden messages in the WikiLeaks cables were less about Tunisia and Russia, more about Winnie the Pooh?
BY MARJORIE GARBER | MARCH/APRIL 2011
Revenge of the Quiet American
The world of U.S. diplomacy as filtered through WikiLeaks looks an awful lot like a certain other Western imperial power from not too long ago.
BY MAYA JASANOFF | MARCH/APRIL 2011
How to Write a Cable
A veteran diplomat explains how it's really done.
BY PETER W. GALBRAITH | MARCH/APRIL 2011
Nothing to See Here
What if the big message of the WikiLeaks cables is that there is no message?
BY FOUAD AJAMI | MARCH/APRIL 2011
In Other Words
JANUARY 13, 2011
Irony Is Good!
How Mao killed Chinese humor ... and how the Internet is slowly bringing it back again.
BY ERIC ABRAHAMSEN | JANUARY 12, 2011
Three Decades of a Joke That Just Won't Die
Egyptian humor goes where its politics cannot.
BY ISSANDR EL AMRANI | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
Meet the Persident
In surreal Russia, fake presidential tweets are much more relevant than the real ones.
BY JULIA IOFFE | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
The Russian Masterpiece You've Never Heard of
Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate has more to say about human freedom than any other Russian novel of the century. That's probably why it was locked up for so long.
BY LEON ARON | NOVEMBER 2010
Travel Writing Lives!
The nostalgists are wrong -- in fact, travel writing is better than ever, and it's got more to tell us about our globalized world than dry policy writing does.
BY JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO | OCTOBER 5, 2010
Travel Writing Ain't What It Used to Be
If you like your adventure stories devoid of any eating, prayer, or love, try the classics.
BY JESSA CRISPIN | OCTOBER 5, 2010
The challenges of setting a novel in North Korea
BY ISAAC STONE FISH
Will Islamists take over Yemen's revolution?
BY LAURENT BONNEFOY
Does the Obama administration really care about the U.N.?
BY DAVID BOSCO
What Israelis need to understand about the Arab Spring
BY SALMAN SHAIKH
Is the U.S. constitution going out of style?
BY JOSHUA KEATING
State denies cutting Baghdad embassy staff. Chicken wing supply uncertain.
BY JOSH ROGIN
Egypt's revolution continues to unravel
BY HANI SABRA AND WILLIS SPARKS
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