Charles Glass

Anything Can Happen

Notions of authorship, creator, and creatures, as well as of love, folly, and imagination, dominate Salman Rushdie’s and Ariel Dorfman’s retellings of Don Quixote.

Cautivos

by Ariel Dorfman

Quichotte

by Salman Rushdie

October 21, 2021 issue

Scheherazade in a Syrian Cell

In Praise of Hatred

by Khaled Khalifa, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price

No Knives in the Kitchens of This City

by Khaled Khalifa, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price

Death Is Hard Work

by Khaled Khalifa, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price

December 19, 2019 issue

Homs, Syria, February 2016; photographs by Jerome Sessini

Syria: A Savage Peace

February 7, 2019 issue

Syrian soldiers loyal to Bashar al-Assad, eastern Ghouta, February 2018

Not Over Yet

April 5, 2018 issue

Protesters against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, Hama, Syria, July 2011

Syria’s New Normal

March 8, 2018 issue

Letter

Seth Harp

Not Over Yet

April 5, 2018 issue

Umm Mohammed and her husband drinking coffee at their destroyed home in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the outskirts of Damascus, March 2017

In the Horrorscape of Aleppo

The destruction conjures memories of Dresden, Coventry, and Tokyo in the aftermath of World War II.

May 25, 2017 issue

Syrian boys in the rebel-held town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus, January 2017

How Assad Is Winning

The war is far from over.

February 23, 2017 issue

A Syrian man carrying his daughters across rubble after a barrel bomb attack on the rebel-held neighborhood of Kalasa in Aleppo, September 2015

In the Syrian Deadlands

A brutal, unending ordeal

October 22, 2015 issue

Supporters of Bashar al-Assad at a demonstration in Homs, May 2012

In the Syria We Don’t Know

How the Assad regime is surviving

November 6, 2014 issue

Shelling in the village of Douri in Syria’s Latakia province, allegedly by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, August 17, 2013

Syria: On the Way to Genocide?

The war has reached the stage at which many on both sides no longer regard the others as human

December 5, 2013 issue

Central Aleppo, after a Syrian army plane dropped a bomb on a residential building, killing and wounding dozens of people, September 8, 2012

Aleppo: How Syria Is Being Destroyed

December 20, 2012 issue

The Citadel, the medieval fortress at the center of Aleppo, Syria. The city has recently been the scene of clashes between government forces and opposition groups.

Syria: The Citadel & the War

June 7, 2012 issue

Query

December 1, 2005 issue

Why Lebanon?

Going All the Way: Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventurers, and the War in Lebanon

by Jonathan C. Randal

September 29, 1983 issue