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Published in: 50.50Mazí Mas, “with us”Women have played a seminal role in keeping food cultures all over the world alive. Nikandre Kopcke discusses her...
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Published in: 50.50She Left Me the Gun: on story-telling and re-tellingEmma Brockes’ exploration of her mother’s life in South Africa, and what made her leave, is also a study in writing...
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Published in: HomeThe great tide of 31 January 1953An enormous surge of water over the coastal lands of south-east England sixty years ago took hundreds of lives and...
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Published in: HomeMo Yan's Nobel, an ideal betrayed
The Swedish Academy's award of the Nobel literature prize to the Chinese novelist Mo Yan violates the principles of...
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Published in: HomeMo Yan and China's prize
The award of the Nobel literature prize to a Chinese writer favoured by the authorities provoked disputes both on...
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Published in: HomeBrave New World reimagined
Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World (1931) is acquiring fresh meanings in another era of crisis and...
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Published in: HomeLaw & Order, take two
The successful New York-set crime series Law & Order has generated numerous spin-offs, remakes and reworkings. A...
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Published in: HomeRailtracks
"Impossible now to think of train travel without a kind of tenderness - as if that is what love is: arrival after...
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Published in: HomeVapor Trail (Clark): wastes of history
A cinematic project in the Philippines that began as an exercise in political documentary and ended as excavation of...
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Published in: HomeThe fiction of climate change
What is a climate-change novel, and what makes a good one? Andrew Dobson takes time from his day job as professor of...
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Published in: HomeThe white and pleasant land
A racist assault on unfamiliar ground provokes Delwar Hussain to reflect on why the British countryside looks less...
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Published in: HomeEcocentrism: a response to Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorth’s journey from a degraded environmentalism to nature-centred ways of living and thinking has many...
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Published in: HomeOysters Rockefeller
The threat to a unique New Orleans culinary tradition is one measure of the Gulf of Mexico tragedy, says Jim Gabour.
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Published in: HomeTomás Eloy Martínez and the Argentine dream
The work of the Argentinean writer Tomás Eloy Martínez is intimately bound with the country’s modern history of...
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Published in: HomeBarcelona i Catalunya: the real thing
The scholar of world politics and openDemocracy columnist Fred Halliday lived and worked in - and fell in love with...
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Published in: oDRSiberian Shamans Come in From the Cold (part 3)After decades of repression, Siberia’s shamans are re-emerging. Ken Hyder is a musician who performs with a Tuvan...
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Published in: HomeSiberian Shamans Come in From the ColdAfter decades of repression, Siberia’s shamans are re-emerging. Ken Hyder is a musician who performs with a Tuvan...
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Published in: HomeBelarus: love and paranoia
A Belarusian novel encourages citizens to question their own role in perpetuating the regime that governs them. The...
