‘Life exists to be described’
‘If we expected a better situation, more respect, greater equality – that did not happen’. With her concrete observations of […]
Culture
From punk rebellion to happy consumerism
From late-90s punk to ‘Happyism’, the trajectory of former The Flowers front-man Wowkie Zhang exposes a dialectic typical of China’s
Dispatch from Ukraine
When citizens are the targets of direct military action, humanity suffers alongside those under fire. First-hand insights of travelling to
Memory over ideology
An optimistic take on AI aesthetics; the destruction of Vilnius during the Soviet Union; the arrested development of Lithuanian urban
Living language
In the 50th issue of Atlas: a cautionary tale about the manosphere; gentrification myths; a meditation on authority, power and
The present state
Contradictions and possibilities of the state: neo-neoliberalism versus state capitalism; census-taking and the state imagination; the politicization of childbearing; James
Russia’s imprisoned mothers
Women sentenced to time behind bars is on the rise under Putin. While male convicts are being offered their freedom
A moral compass: Slavenka Drakulić (1949–2026)
After being forced to leave Croatia in 1992 following her criticism of the nationalist regime, the writer and feminist Slavenka
Iran’s freethinkers
Talking with atheists and religious minorities explodes the myth of a homogenous Islamic Republic of Iran. But secular views remain