Lifting the veil of Albania, with pedals
We cycle into Albania with butterflies in our stomachs. It is, after all, Albania – home to a 40-year dictatorship that, until recently, left it as closed off from the world as North Korea is today. It is the wild frontier between East and West.
[continue reading...]Lifting the veil of Albania, with pedals
We cycle into Albania with butterflies in our stomachs. It is, after all, Albania – home to a 40-year dictatorship that, until recently, left it as closed off from the world as North Korea is today. It is the wild frontier between East and West.
[continue reading...]Portraits of workers in the Philippines
These are men who make hundreds of trips a week, up and down the steep winding trail, ferrying literal bags of rocks on their heads in weather that hits 35 degrees every day.
[continue reading...]Being queer in Kenya
It’s not the best time to be gay in East Africa: Everything from Homophobic gangs to homophobic legislation are making life unlivable in several African states. Fortunately, at least, it’s getting people to talk.
[continue reading...]Creative commodities: Marketing China’s alternative culture
China’s alternative arts scene is vibrant and thriving. But it is hamstrung by the lack of avenues to exploit and encourage new and existing art, Review Editor Laura Fitch writes. This is changing. But slowly.
[continue reading...]Part III of Ubuntu: More or less conflict?
In this three-part series, Toronto Review correspondent Sigrun Marie Moss will examine Ubuntu, the meta-philosophy of Sub-Saharan Africa. This third and final installment, examines whether the belief may serve to escalate, rather than decrease, conflict.
[continue reading...]
Portraits of workers in the Philippines
By Alana Range COMPOSTELA, PHILIPPINES – We’ve been working with these faces for two weeks. Mostly, we pass them on ...
Being queer in Kenya
Writing by Cynthia Vukets // Photos of Nairobi by Steve Bull NAIROBI---It’s not the best time to be gay in ...
Creative commodities: Marketing China’s alternative culture China’s alternative arts scene is vibrant and thriving. But it is hamstrung by the lack of avenues to exploit and encourage new and existing art, Review Editor Laura Fitch writes. This is changing. But slowly.
Part III of Ubuntu: More or less conflict? In this three-part series, Toronto Review correspondent Sigrun Marie Moss will examine Ubuntu, the meta-philosophy of Sub-Saharan Africa. This third and final installment, examines whether the belief may serve to escalate, rather than decrease, conflict.
Waterboarding and the history of torture Torture has a long and sordid history, oscillating from being in favour (by the U.S., now, for example) to being persecuted (like when Allies convicted a Japanese soldier of waterboarding a U.S. civilian in 1947). But regardless of its nonsensical place in military strategy, it’s likely here to stay.
Stowing Away in Bombay My companions were safely in first class. I, on the other hand, had “Waiting List” ticket #482 in my sweaty palm and a clammy nervousness was spreading over me like a fever.