Hisham Matar on a Renaissance master: Diana and Actaeon ... records the moment Actaeon startles Diana and her nymphs, sealing his fate. His shadow falls on the scene, as though Titian is suggesting that, innocent or not, the act of looking implicates the viewer. www.equator.org/articles/pit...

Hisham Matar revisits the notorious photographs of torture from Abu Ghraib, to ask what they might reveal about the nature – and limits – of American power www.equator.org/articles/pit...

We live in a world inundated by images of atrocity. What might these pictures reveal about the perpetrators of violence? Hisham Matar reflects on this question with help from Ovid and Titian. www.equator.org/articles/pit...

What’s it like to do journalism at an official Chinese Communist Party publication? Soyonbo Borjgin looks back on his rise through the ranks – and fall from grace – at the Inner Mongolia Life Weekly. www.equator.org/articles/the...

As the BBC sinks deeper into an ethical and political morass, read Daniel Trilling’s definitive investigation into the corporation's struggles over Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

Want to understand what actually went wrong at the BBC? Read Daniel Trilling’s in-depth report in the corporations’s spectacular failure over the war in Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

In his in-depth investigation into the BBC, for which he spoke to dozens of journalists at the corporation, Daniel Trilling addresses the broader stakes of the historic failure of Western institutions over Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

Daniel Trilling (@trillingual.bsky.social) spoke to dozens of BBC journalists to understand how the corporation came to symbolise the West's failure over Israel's genocide in Gaza.

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Daniel Trilling (@trillingual.bsky.social) spoke to over two dozen current and former journalists at the BBC, from frontline reporters to senior editors, who believe that the ”corporation mishandled its response to the Gaza war.” Read his in-depth report:

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Nesrine Malik on the making of Equator

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