The People Behind the Polls
A photographer crosses state lines and ideological borders to talk to voters on the eve of America's presidential election.
A photographer crosses state lines and ideological borders to talk to voters on the eve of America's presidential election.
The writer on the lives of cosmopolitan migrants, Latin American fiction, and the therapeutic limitations of testimony.
On Music: Hitching a Ride with the Guatemalan Chicken Bus Gypsy Caravan.
Jose Orduna on asserting personhood as resistance, the connection between activism and essays, and being 'aggressively bilingual'
The Festival Videobrasil founder discusses Brazil’s political history with video art and her vision for the nonprofit’s pioneering new art space.
The Future of Cities: The city planner on what Rio’s favelas can teach global cities, when communities become brands, and the value of informality.
When I go back to Bogotá, I like to share my knowledge of the car bombs that went off in the city in the ’80s and ’90s. I helpfully point out the gory details to cab drivers and friends. I press my finger on the window and point at corners, “That’s the spot where an ATM blew up, seven dead.”
The hyper-diversification of narco-capitalism will produce fantastic dealers, who, for interested parties, will offer tanks of oxygen, water for human consumption, and substandard drugs, the kind whose memory lives on for days in the form of jaw pain and bloodshot eyes.
An Interview with João Gilberto Noll’s Translator, Adam Morris