In Other Words
List of In Other Words articles
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Illustrations by Maayan Pearl for FP Can You Write a Novel on Twitter?
The quest to write great literature, 140 characters at a time.
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Photographs by Erin Trieb Can an American Soldier Ever Die in Vain?
What Shakespeare, Lincoln, and "Lone Survivor" teach us about the danger of refusing to confront futility in war.
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Photo: Lauren DeCicca The Reckoning
After decades of censorship, Burma's filmmakers probe their country's dark past.
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552570_inotherwords_02.jpg Most Favored Narrations
The 10 best books, according to China's ruling elite.
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Top image: David Levenson/Getty Images Europe; iStockphoto Muse of the Revolution
A Syrian-American writer finds her voice, with help from Libya's most famous novelist.
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Photograph by Renée Comet The Cookbook Theory of Economics
Why Chinese and Mexican dominate the market.
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Photograph by Renée Comet Recipe for Living: Add Rice. Stir.
The grain that sustains the war weary.
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Photograph by Renée Comet Austerity Lentils
What a country cooks when it's collapsing.
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FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images Market Revolution
How Poland learned to love its own cuisine.
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Chris McGrath/Getty Images The Singularity of Fools
A special report from the utopian future.
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Arrow Films ‘Homeland’ in the Holy Land
A TV thriller taps into Israel's collective subconscious.
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Insecurity Camera
Homeland and the Israeli show that inspired it aren't the only thrillers that tackle their countries' deepest national security concerns. Here are five other programs that tap into national psyches.
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Peeter Viisimaa/Getty Images The KGB Oscars
In Putin's Russia, it's the spies that are handing out the awards for the year's best movies.
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Photos courtesy of Scott Johnson A Father’s Secret…
And his journalist son's search for the truth.
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Historical photos courtesy of Peter Buck Feller Declassified
The son of a Red Army intelligence officer sent to die in a Siberian gulag discovers his father's KGB file, and a cottage industry of children-of-spies memoirs.
