Foreign policy isn’t just about war, staged conferences, and tiffs between world leaders -- and neither is Foreign Policy. With our In Other Words section, we feature the best in ideas and intellectual culture from around the world, from the jokes that are shaping political life in Egypt to the Soviet literary masterpieces that still resonate today, including regular book clubs and excerpts from our favorite authors worldwide.
The Latest from In Other Words
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How Mao killed Chinese humor ... and how the Internet is slowly bringing it back again.
By Eric Abrahamsen
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Three Decades of a Joke That Just Won't Die
Egyptian humor goes where its politics cannot.
By Issandr El Amrani
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In surreal Russia, fake presidential tweets are much more relevant than the real ones.
By Julia Ioffe
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The Russian Masterpiece You've Never Heard of
Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate has more to say about human freedom than any other Russian novel of the century. That's probably why it was locked up for so long.
By Leon Aron
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Two autobiographies show how India's new Rockefellers made it big
By Sadanand Dhume
The Russian Masterpiece You’ve Never Heard Of
By Leon Aron.
Eat, Pray, Navel Gaze
Is travel-writing dead?
Misreading Tehran
Leading Iranian-American writers revisit a year of dreams and disappointment.
Overcoming the Language Barrier
FP’s translation project.
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FP’s bloggers pick their favorite books of the year.
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