Author: Francis Wade

Columns

Storm in a Teacup

Francis Wade

July 16, 2020

On tea, colonial trade, and the origins of capitalism in India and China.

Fool’s Gold

Gene Seymour

July 08, 2020

In Spike Lee's latest, black vets return to Vietnam.

Waste Away

Lina Mounzer

July 07, 2020

Notes on Beirut’s broken sewage system.

No Safe Haven

Leo Schwartz

June 29, 2020

Two books consider how U.S. policy ravages the Northern Triangle.

Between Memory and Forgetting

Yi-Ling Liu

June 17, 2020

Hong Kong fights to keep alive the dead of Tiananmen Square.

Springtime for Empire

Tom Stevenson

May 12, 2020

Noah Feldman’s history of the Arab Spring is willfully blind to American imperialism.

The Part About the Crimes

Will Noah

May 11, 2020

Fernanda Melchor's scorching novel of femicide.

In the Claws of a Police State

Laurel Flores Fantauzzo

May 06, 2020

Duterte militarizes his response to the coronavirus.

The Farmers

Eta Demby

May 04, 2020

The leaves blanketing the ground are worn skeletally thin like small lace shrouds. This layer of decomposed matter that insulated plant and microbial life throughout the winter has begun to thaw and sweat, releasing a heady stench in the forest and fields where baby nettles, ...

Cash Cows

Joshua Specht

May 04, 2020

Meatpacking and the specter of Coronapolitics.

Total Cuomo Show

Jess McAllen

April 30, 2020

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is going to run. Cara, his daughter, thinks she can beat him, but he’ll be out there, say, five miles a day: “fast like lightning.” Cuomo should start running—for president! That’s what certain pundits and livestream devotees are saying ...

Crimes of Passion

Becca Rothfeld

April 23, 2020

The violent imagination of Heinrich von Kleist.