In Other Words
List of In Other Words articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Con Air
What in-flight magazines don't want you to know about the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Leftist Planet
Why do so many travel guides make excuses for dictators?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Teaching Intolerance
You should see what even first graders have to read in Saudi Arabia.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The End of History in the New Libya
The Green Book is gone, but what will replace it?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How García Márquez ExplainsLatin America
(And Roberto Bolaño and Tomás Eloy Martínez.)
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Gogol* Explains the Post-Soviet World
(*And Chekhov and Dostoyevsky.) The case for (re)reading Russia's greatest literary classics.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Pakistan the Unreal
A son's tale of a death ripped from the headlines -- and the novel that foretold it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 True to Life
From Vietnam to Pakistan, writers have long turned to fiction to make sense of the news, often yielding uncanny portraits of real-life war, revolution, and cultural change. Here, Foreign Policy offers a sampler of novels that could have been straight out of the newspapers -- and sometimes even made them.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Written on the Wall
A tumultuous year, told through the scrawls and murals of the people living through it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Revolution in a Can
Graffiti is as American as apple pie, but much easier to export.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Conflict Graffiti
The art of war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Skeletons in Deng’s Closet
The new biography of the man who really transformed China is the most complete and ambitious ever. But does it leave out some black spots?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Dear Uncle Sam…
Why do India and Pakistan see America in such opposite ways?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 America the Brutiful
Yanks are starring on foreign screens -- and it ain't a pretty sight.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 900 Channels of the Great Satan
In Iran's latest TV obsession, the Ugly American is -- themselves.
