Xinjiang

Alim Has a Problem

‘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.’

Zimbabwe street life

The Land Where Rhodes Fell

What can you learn about Cecil Rhodes from his grave? Jean Fleming travels to Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe, to find out.

Traces of Levinas

‘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.’

The Map Gone Dark

In the remote borderlands between Russia and Georgia lives a community that has weathered the turbulent history of the Caucasus.