Puppets at the Hands of Water: Sex Workers in Mongla, Bangladesh
17 minutes
On a summer afternoon in 2022, I made the long drive from Jessore to Mongla, a port city in southern Bangladesh. My route took me through Bangladesh’s...Walking a Sicilian River
by Paolo Gruppuso and Erika Garozzo
13 minutes
On the sandy shoreline of eastern Sicily, the Simeto River meets the Ionian Sea against the dramatic backdrop of the volcano Etna. Groves of reeds sur...The Poetics of Dunes
11 minutes
I grew up by the sea, in the warm south of Portugal, swimming in the ocean and playing in the sand. I didn’t know then that my childhood playground wa...