In Other Words

The Singularity of Fools

A special report from the utopian future.

BY DAVID RIEFF | MAY/JUNE 2013

'Homeland' in the Holy Land

A TV thriller taps into Israel's collective subconscious.

BY DEBRA KAMIN | MARCH 4, 2013

Insecurity Camera

Homeland and the Israeli show that inspired it aren't the only thrillers that tackle their countries' deepest national security concerns. Here are five other programs that tap into national psyches.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MARCH 4, 2013

The KGB Oscars

In Putin's Russia, it's the spies that are handing out the awards for the year's best movies.

BY SIMON SHUSTER | FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The Disappeared

Even the Soviet Union eventually acknowledged Stalin's Great Famine. Why does China still hide evidence of its own mass starvation under Mao?

BY FRANK DIKÖTTER | JANUARY 2, 2013

A Father's Secret…

And his journalist son's search for the truth.

BY SCOTT C. JOHNSON | NOVEMBER 2012

Declassified

The son of a Red Army intelligence officer sent to die in a Siberian gulag discovers his father's KGB file, and a cottage industry of children-of-spies memoirs.

BY PETER BUCK FELLER | NOVEMBER 2012

Con Air

What in-flight magazines don't want you to know about the world.

BY SARAH WILDMAN | SEPT/OCT 2012

Leftist Planet

Why do so many travel guides make excuses for dictators?

BY MICHAEL MOYNIHAN | SEPT/OCT 2012

Teaching Intolerance

You should see what even first graders have to read in Saudi Arabia.

BY EMAN AL NAFJAN | MAY/JUNE 2012

The End of History in the New Libya

The Green Book is gone, but what will replace it?

BY CLARE MORGANA GILLIS | MAY/JUNE 2012

How García Márquez Explains
Latin America

(And Roberto Bolaño and Tomás Eloy Martínez.)

BY EDMUNDO PAZ SOLDÁN | MARCH 2, 2012

How Gogol* Explains the Post-Soviet World

(*And Chekhov and Dostoyevsky.) The case for (re)reading Russia's greatest literary classics.

BY THOMAS DE WAAL | MARCH/APRIL 2012

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

Conflict Graffiti

The art of war.

BY PAUL SALOPEK | 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

Don't Go There

Chasing the dying memories of Soviet trauma.

BY ORLANDO FIGES | JULY/AUGUST 2011

The Blank Spots

Why so many remain.

BY MARIA LIPMAN | 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