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The Cradle of Chinese Hip-Hop 

Yi-Ling Liu

Chengdu rapper’s delight

Seeing the Sangh 

The Editors

Equator in the news, mapping the RSS

‘The Best Show in Town’ 

Omar Sakr, The Editors

Adelaide cancellation, Maduro trope watch

A Tournament for Dictators 

Sean Jacobs, Jonathan Shainin

Football fascism, extraterrestrial imperialism

Resisting Silence 

David Velasco

An art world divorce

Natalia Ginzburg’s Surveys of Suffering 

Gini Alhadeff, The Editors

Lessico Familiare, weekend reading

The Roar of the Machine 

Eleanor Goodman, Zhan Youbing

Prisoners of the Chinese dream

Ukraine’s “Peace by Coercion” 

Osman Samiuddin, Volodymyr Ishchenko

Comatose European Union, undead Imran Khan

The Monsters Return 

Naomi Klein, Na Zhong

Surrealism sans frontier, Chinese exam nightmares

The Art of Looking 

Hisham Matar, Tanweer Fazal , Branko Milanovic

Museum memories, Hindutva vegetables, American denial

How Crisis Engulfed the BBC 

Lilith Verstrynge, Daniel Trilling , Elina Alter

Gossipy journalists, advice from dad, Russian mumbles

Hip-hop at the End of History 

Benjamin Moser, Rahmane Idrissa , Magdi el Gizouli

Nigerian bangers, imperial greetings, opponents of Zionism

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