In Other Words

The Green Book is gone, but what will replace it?

(And Roberto Bolaño and Tomás Eloy Martínez.)

(*And Chekhov and Dostoyevsky.) The case for (re)reading Russia's greatest literary classics.

A son's tale of a death ripped from the headlines -- and the novel that foretold it.

From Vietnam to Pakistan, writers have long turned to fiction to make sense of the news, often yielding uncanny portraits of real-life war, revolution, and cultural change. Here, Foreign Policy offers a sampler of novels that could have been straight out of the newspapers -- and sometimes even made them.

A tumultuous year, told through the scrawls and murals of the people living through it.

Graffiti is as American as apple pie, but much easier to export.

The art of war.

The new biography of the man who really transformed China is the most complete and ambitious ever. But does it leave out some black spots?

Why do India and Pakistan see America in such opposite ways?

Yanks are starring on foreign screens -- and it ain't a pretty sight.

In Iran's latest TV obsession, the Ugly American is -- themselves.