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The current clampdown on popular rights mirrors a profound malaise with our system of top-down political representation, argues Richard Swift.

Mark Engler asks why it only takes a bit of a bomb-dropping and sabre-rattling to rally the reporters and bestow a presidential aura on our leaders.

This month, we review The White Book, by Han Kang; Red Famine, by Anne Applebaum; The Rage, by Julia Ebner and The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton.

I Am Not a Witch, directed and written by Rungano Nyoni; Menashe, directed and co-written by Joshua Z Weinstein

We review TootArd, from the Golan Heights, with their second album Laissez Passer, and Live at Ronnie Scott’s, by Nitin Sawhney.

The Mexican author and political scientist talks drugs, racism and masculinity with Graeme Green

Cartoon by Marc Roberts

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

Last December, in a ballot described as ‘a sham’ by international observers, the country elected Mirziyoyev as successor of its first post-independence president and long-time dictator Karimov. But things might not get that much better, writes Tina Burrett.

A cartoon by P J Polyp

Payam Boromand from Iran with ‘European Art’

Not a sign of progress but a cause for alarm. Amy Booth reports from Cochabamba’s overlong dry season.

Praise, blame and all points in between? Your feedback published in the November 2017 magazine.

Jokes may have more power to make people think than facts – but is mainstream comedy doing enough to open people’s minds? Kate Smurthwaite jabs back at the comedians with only easy targets in their sights.

It’s always sunny; Find me a river; No more puppy mills.