
Can You Write a Novel on Twitter?
The quest to write great literature, 140 characters at a time.

The Dog Whisperer
How a British colonel altered the battlefields of World War I, and why his crusade still resonates today.

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.

The Reckoning
After decades of censorship, Burma's filmmakers probe their country's dark past.

Most Favored Narrations
The 10 best books, according to China's ruling elite.

Muse of the Revolution
A Syrian-American writer finds her voice, with help from Libya's most famous novelist.

The Cookbook Theory of Economics
Why Chinese and Mexican dominate the market.

Recipe for Living: Add Rice. Stir.
The grain that sustains the war weary.

Austerity Lentils
What a country cooks when it's collapsing.

Market Revolution
How Poland learned to love its own cuisine.

The Singularity of Fools
A special report from the utopian future.

‘Homeland’ in the Holy Land
A TV thriller taps into Israel's collective subconscious.
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.

The KGB Oscars
In Putin's Russia, it's the spies that are handing out the awards for the year's best movies.

The Disappeared
Even the Soviet Union eventually acknowledged Stalin's Great Famine. Why does China still hide evidence of its own mass starvation under Mao?

A Father’s Secret…
And his journalist son's search for the truth.

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.

Con Air
What in-flight magazines don't want you to know about the world.

Leftist Planet
Why do so many travel guides make excuses for dictators?

Teaching Intolerance
You should see what even first graders have to read in Saudi Arabia.

The End of History in the New Libya
The Green Book is gone, but what will replace it?

How García Márquez ExplainsLatin America
(And Roberto Bolaño and Tomás Eloy Martínez.)