Ian Jack

Pandemic Journal

Dispatches from around the world documenting the coronavirus outbreak

April 23, 2020 issue

Pandemic Journal, March 17–22

Dispatches on the coronavirus outbreak from Madeleine Schwartz in Brooklyn, Anne Enright in Dublin, Joshua Hunt in Busan, Anna Badkhen in Lalibela, Lauren Groff in Gainesville, and more.

March 22, 2020

The Shard, London’s tallest skyscraper, June 2012

Imploding with Cool

‘The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City’ by Iain Sinclair

The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City

by Iain Sinclair

September 27, 2018 issue

A British airplane silhouetted by searchlights on the Rock of Gibraltar as it prepared for a flight to the United Kingdom, circa 1943

Good Old Gib

Nicholas Rankin’s ‘Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler’

Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler

by Nicholas Rankin

March 22, 2018 issue

‘The Pity of Partition’

January 8, 2015 issue

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond (center), British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Cameron’s mother, Mary, at the Wimbledon tennis championships, London, July 2013

How the Scots Are Still Scaring Britain

November 6, 2014 issue

Letter

Charlie Docherty

‘Yes’ in the West

January 8, 2015 issue

Sikhs migrating to Indian Punjab after the partition of India and Pakistan, 1947

A Brilliant, Displaced Indian Writer

The Pity of Partition: Manto’s Life, Times, and Work Across the India-Pakistan Divide

by Ayesha Jalal

Bombay Stories

by Saadat Hasan Manto, translated from the Urdu by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad

October 23, 2014 issue

Letter

Ayesha Jalal

‘The Pity of Partition’

January 8, 2015 issue

Three boys from the Annawadi slum, one of whom is portrayed in Behind the Beautiful Forevers, February 2009

Blood Sport Beneath the City

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

by Katherine Boo

April 5, 2012 issue

Ireland: The Rise & the Crash

Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger

by Fintan O'Toole

November 11, 2010 issue

Seduced by Trains

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

by Paul Theroux

December 18, 2008 issue

Choosing the Best

October 31, 1996 issue