On male refractions
Male inadequacy and virtual mirages of aggression: Guy Gunaratne on terrorism, incels and the performance of violent masculinity
Male inadequacy and virtual mirages of aggression: Guy Gunaratne on terrorism, incels and the performance of violent masculinity
Livia Franchini is stuck between two countries and languages, ‘back and forth between two distinct, self-sufficient identities of home’.
As the days are getting shorter, we investigate things that are tucked away in dark corners of the brain - or the national consciousness.

Elias Khoury is back with My Name Is Adam, the story of a man who decides to investigate what happened in 1948 in Palestine in the city of Lydda where he was born.
We spoke to the author and translator of Frankenstein in Baghdad about the novel’s success, its religious elements and truth in storytelling.