Behind the Scenes with Jacob Rollinson
On travelling to Xinjiang province and the ethical duties of writing.
On travelling to Xinjiang province and the ethical duties of writing.
‘Xinjiang is a Chinese invention. The name means “new territory”. It wipes clean the region’s history of kingdoms and tribal loyalties. Like New Zealand. New Mexico. New South Wales.’
What can you learn about Cecil Rhodes from his grave? Jean Fleming travels to Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe, to find out.
‘A Lithuanian Jew, writing in French; a philosopher overshadowed by his peers; Emmanuel Levinas could only be understood by visiting his hometown, where no one I asked seemed to know his name.’
In the remote borderlands between Russia and Georgia lives a community that has weathered the turbulent history of the Caucasus.