Joanna Schwartz on the difficulty of holding the police accountable

Marie Arana on how violence, exploitation, and religion have ruled Latin America’s history—and might portend its future

Javier Sinay on the forgotten history of the first Jewish immigrants in Argentina

Eleanor Janega on the overlooked lives of ordinary women

Darren Byler on translating the fiction of Uyghur writer Perhat Tursun

Kier-La Janisse on holiday slashers and other ghost tales for Christmas

Dorthe Nors brings us to the North Sea Coast

Michelle Gallen talks about her new novel, Ireland in the 1990s, and finding your way in a bombed-out town

Lydia Moland on the children’s writer who had a change of heart