Books and their readers in a changing industry; the crisis of public broadcasting; social memory and the task of historians; Russian emigrés in 1920s Prague.

The glorification of Ratko Mladic was an example of how, in the former Yugoslavia, ethnic identity is performed through its most provocative symbols. But nationalism thrives in the absence of a convin...

Hands up if you refuse the logic of efficiency; pointless machines; AI and the limits of legibility; the incessant acoustics of data centres.

A nuanced and realistic picture is needed of the path of gender equality during and after state socialism, one that overlooks neither progressive-emancipatory nor repressive-patriarchal elements.

Engaged spirituality: the meditator-activist; Indigenous mysticism and the bridging of worlds; the renaissance of the béguinage; spiritual democrats.

Daniel Cohn Bendit and Claus Leggewie have for decades been two of the most influential and original voices on the European Green-Left. Here they reflect on the limits of anti-authoritarianism, how th...

The delegitimization of the Spanish judiciary; democratic death by a thousand bites; Trump and the new geometry of power; privatising the body of Franco.

With Marine Le Pen comfortably out-polling her competitors, the prospect of a far-right president in France no longer seems far-fetched. Crucial to Le Pen’s chances in 2027 will be whether she can sat...

In search of traces of the Belarusian diaspora in the West after 1945, the poet Volha Hapeyeva considers how language and literature provide a sense of belonging away from home, helping to conserve an...

The controversial reopening of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, justified under the pretext of dialogue, legitimised the Russian state's weaponisation of culture – a practice rooted in Tsa...

Iranian cinema’s struggle for freedom of expression; policing women’s right to choose in Russia; Israel’s murderous method of censorship; the suffocation of political theatre in the UK.

Why working-class Valencians are being priced out of their own language; whether or not to write in dialect; Catalonia’s golden age; comparing genocides.

Cryonics promises to preserve patients’ brains, if not entire bodies, until they can be given a ‘second life’. But now there is another route to immortality: digital brain emulation. A transhumanist f...

Women who build their own computers dream of a freer internet. By personalizing their tech, they bring fun back into the equation, and, beyond initial aesthetic choices, are taking back control over h...

An interview with Tomas Grunskis, a philosopher of architecture; the renaissance of Lithuanian film; Warhol and Beuys; body intelligence.

On the rituals of prisoner exchange; a village priest who became an adoptive father of six; a wedding costume to be worn into the grave; the field hospital as a place between life and death.

Bernard Charbonneau (1910–1996) was a pioneer of the ecology movement and a fierce critic of the tourism industry, which he argued came from an authentic desire to escape the city, but which brought w...

Even in the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, a deep-rooted moral paralysis prevents the Russian opposition from demanding justice for the crimes committed by the state both during Sov...

Profiles without selves, or boycott Facebook now; Sartre, Heidegger and Whatsapp; a biography of Orhan Veli, one of Turkey’s great 20th-century poets.

Against the backdrop of the ‘special operation’ in Ukraine and a historically low birth rate, the authorities in Russia are waging an unprecedented campaign against the right to choose to be a mother.

Biljana Plavšić’s universe of concealment; why it’s the middle classes the Left needs to watch; how to know with uncertainty; who decides who deserves welfare?

How do you write the history of a displaced society when sites of memory have been destroyed, libraries looted, and archives made inaccessible? Tracing the evolution of Palestinian historiography is t...

Leo XIV’s Augustinian style of communication; what to expect of the unexpected pope; prospects for women’s equality; the demise of the Catholic intellectual.

Far-right disinformation targeting Roma communities in Bulgaria and Romania taps into existing fears of discrimination, doubling up prejudice. Can community support bring the much-needed equilibrium t...

The art of compassion in the digital age; multilingualism and culture in Slovenia; Green futures in China; conversations in The Gambia.

Though the development is uneven, the direction of travel is clear, as coalitions between conservative and far-right parties become the more viable option at both the national and European levels.

Gwen John’s competing passions; a sunny vision of Wales; Jules Verne’s Scotland; intergenerational trauma in Belfast.

As academic freedom comes under pressure in Georgia, revisiting the country's complex history of higher education offers a new way of understanding both its European aspirations and the obstacles that...

As a writer, Slavenka Drakulić sought to evoke the life of the single individual in a way that made empathy possible, writes her friend Marci Shore.

With her concrete observations of everyday patriarchy, Slavenka Drakulić left a deep mark on a generation of women readers, writes her friend Marija Ott Franolić.

Contradictions and possibilities of the state: neo-neoliberalism versus state capitalism; census-taking and the state imagination; the politicization of childbearing; James C. Scott’s anarchist squint...

In the 50th issue of Atlas: a cautionary tale about the manosphere; gentrification myths; a meditation on authority, power and cultural ownership; freedom despite war.

From late-90s punk to ‘Happyism’, the trajectory of former The Flowers front-man Wowkie Zhang exposes a dialectic typical of China’s mainstream: alternative impulses constantly surface, are monetised,...

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After being forced to leave Croatia in 1992 following her criticism of the nationalist regime, the writer and feminist Slavenka Drakulić set out to explain her homeland to a western public. She will b...