Allison Meakem

2 weeks ago | foreignpolicy.com | Chloe Hadavas |Allison Meakem

Politics United States Iran This month, we’re reading about a listless Hungarian man and a struggling American academic with Indian and Iranian ancestry, both of whom find themselves at home nowhere.

1 month ago | foreignpolicy.com | Chloe Hadavas |Allison Meakem

This month, we’re reading about dystopias real and imagined, from a crime drama set in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to a novel about a convent in a climate-ravaged world. Lawrence Wright (Knopf, 448 pp., $30, March 2025) This month, we’re reading about dystopias real and imagined, from a crime drama set in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to a novel about a convent in a climate-ravaged world.

1 month ago | foreignpolicy.com | Allison Meakem

Politics Security In January, as Hamas prepared to release Israeli hostages held in Gaza as part of a ceasefire deal brokered with Israel, U.S. movie theaters began showing a new film about a different—but no less notorious—Israeli hostage crisis.

2 months ago | foreignpolicy.com | Chloe Hadavas |Allison Meakem

Science and Technology Europe Afghanistan This month, we’re reading novels set against the backdrop of rising authoritarianism and right-wing extremism in Europe, from two siblings navigating near-future techno-dystopian Britain to the experiences of the daughter of Afghan refugees in 21st-century Berlin.

Jan 10, 2025 | foreignpolicy.com | Chloe Hadavas |Allison Meakem

East Asia Japan South Korea Taiwan To kick off the year, we’re reading novels in translation that explore gender, race, and class in East Asia past and present. Gu Byeong-mo, trans.