In Other Words
List of In Other Words articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can You Write a Novel on Twitter?
The quest to write great literature, 140 characters at a time.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can an American Soldier Ever Die in Vain?
What Shakespeare, Lincoln, and "Lone Survivor" teach us about the danger of refusing to confront futility in war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Reckoning
After decades of censorship, Burma's filmmakers probe their country's dark past.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Most Favored Narrations
The 10 best books, according to China's ruling elite.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Muse of the Revolution
A Syrian-American writer finds her voice, with help from Libya's most famous novelist.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Cookbook Theory of Economics
Why Chinese and Mexican dominate the market.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Recipe for Living: Add Rice. Stir.
The grain that sustains the war weary.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Homeland’ in the Holy Land
A TV thriller taps into Israel's collective subconscious.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Insecurity Camera
Homeland and the Israeli show that inspired it aren't the only thrillers that tackle their countries' deepest national security concerns. Here are five other programs that tap into national psyches.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The KGB Oscars
In Putin's Russia, it's the spies that are handing out the awards for the year's best movies.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Declassified
The son of a Red Army intelligence officer sent to die in a Siberian gulag discovers his father's KGB file, and a cottage industry of children-of-spies memoirs.