By Filip Noubel
The Ukraine-based Safran publishing house focuses on niche literature: Asian books in Ukrainian translation. Global Voices interviewed its founder Svitlana Pryzynchuk, who lived in China and is now in Taiwan.
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By Liam Anderson
Residents of São Paulo's outskirts explained why they chose to give over their personal data to the World ID project. Around 400,000 Brazilians sold their iris data for cryptocurrency.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Afghani evacuee Israr, 26, shows photos on his phone of himself working in Afghanistan as a translator with military forces at his new apartment in Charlestown, Massachusetts, February 21, 2022. © 2022 Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images Have you ever been shut out or denied something based solely on your group identity? That is the essence of discrimination; a deeply dehumanizing disregard for individuality, reducing your personal value to a generic category.On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court unanimously reiterated in Ames v. Ohio that the US Civil…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Eric Tataw. © Eric Tataw/X In a possible step towards justice, Eric Tataw, a Cameroonian national residing in the US state of Maryland, has been charged in Federal court with crimes including threatening violence against civilians.Tataw, 38, is a social media activist.The April indictment stemmed from an investigation conducted by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Diplomatic Security Service, which alleges that Tataw called for the “murder, kidnapping, maiming of civilians” as well as raising…
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By Andrew Rogoyski, Innovation Director, Surrey Institute of People-Centred AI, University of Surrey
Half of entry-level white collar jobs might cease to exist in the near future, according to Dario Amodei, the CEO of leading AI company Anthropic. Amodei, whose company is behind the Claude platform, has since called for transparency standards requiring companies making AI models to demonstrate how they are handling risks such as the AI enabling cyberattacks or helping to make bioweapons.…
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By Éadaoin Agnew, Senior lecturer in English literature, Kingston University
Alexandra Peat, Lecturer in the School of English, Media and Creative Arts, University of Galway
Elizabeth J Kuti, Professor in the Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
Manjeet Ridon, Associate Dean International, Faculty of Arts, Design & Humanities, De Montfort University
Rehana Ahmed, Reader in Postcolonial and Contemporary Literature, Queen Mary University of London
From a longlist of 16, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 Women’s prize for fiction. Our experts review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on June 12.
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
The Safekeep, a novel about the expropriation and theft of Jewish property during and after the second world war, revisits a dark chapter of Dutch history.
When Holland fell to Nazi Germany, many Dutch Jews were deported to the death camps and were stripped of their homes and belongings. Van der Wouden’s debut novel shines alight on the act…
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By Malte Jauch, Lecturer in Management and Marketing, University of Essex
People in Germany have taken the idea of a work-life balance too far. To get their economy back on track, they must work more.
Well, that’s what the country’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, thinks. And this controversial claim has triggered a debate in Germany over laziness.
So have Germans become complacent? Could working…
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By Daniele Magistro, Associate Professor in Physical Activity and Health, Department of Sport Science, Nottingham Trent University
Can a robot help you remember your pills, lift shopping, and even offer companionship? Yes – if it’s co-designed by its users.
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By Sophie Ward, Research Fellow in Physical Oceanography, Bangor University
Zoe Roseby, Postdoctoral Researcher, Seascape Carbon, University of Exeter
Mud is messy. For some, it’s a plaything. To many, it can mean real hardship. Mud, though, is often overlooked, particularly when it lies out of sight. Deep down at the bottom of the sea, it is one of the most important natural archives of Earth’s past – holding clues of shifting climates, coastlines, ocean conditions and carbon storage.
Our research is the first to use computer models to trace how thick, carbon-rich mud patches on the seafloor have formed over thousands of years – helping…
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By Emma Sheehan, Associate Professor of Marine Ecology, University of Plymouth
Llucia Mascorda-Cabre, Postdoctoral Researcher, Applied Marine Ecosystem Research Unit, University of Plymouth
Over the past 50 years, global aquaculture including fish, mussel and seaweed farms has grown dramatically. Almost half of the world’s wild-caught fish is used to produce fishmeal and oils that feed farmed fish.
Mussel farming provides a more sustainable alternative protein source for human diets, because mussels filter feed on plankton and do not have to be…
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