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Equator is live. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world:
Equator
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A new magazine of politics, culture and art
Joined September 2025
- "The genocide in Gaza has destroyed what remains of the illusion that the West should determine the future for the rest of the world". Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration — our commitment to build something new. Read more and join us here: equator.org
- Replying to @Equatormag @nazhongwriting and 2 othersIn a bracing political memoir, @LilithVerstryng , former #3 of Podemos, recalls her tumultuous decade in the Spanish left, speaking for the first time since her retirement at age 31.
- A new magazine of politics, culture, art. Coming soon. Sign up to our mailing list: equator.org (Still image from a film by Yto Barrada)
- Replying to @EquatormagIn Sondos Sabra’s wrenching diary from Gaza, “Two Years of Genocide,” she writes that life “feels like an exam that never appeared on the syllabus – an exam we never prepared for.”
- many are saying this
- "I had grown disgusted by the fact that I had ever written for the Times at all, that I had ever lent them my Arab name". Lina Mounzer's bracing memoir of parting ways with the NYT over Gaza. equator.org/articles/the-d…
- Thanks to everyone who's read, subscribed, and shared on our first day! If you're in London, come to our launch this Friday at @southbankcentre with founding editors Pankaj Mishra and @NesrineMalik -- almost sold out but a few tickets left here:
- Replying to @Equatormag @nazhongwriting and 4 othersThe West has decided coastal Bangladesh will drown. Bangladeshis disagree. @GhoshAmitav on apocalyptic thinking, disastrous "climate solutions," and who gets to imagine the future. With photos by @dayanitasingh
- Replying to @EquatormagThe pieces in our launch issue animate the passing of the illusion that the world was on an inevitable trajectory toward Western modernity
- Replying to @Equatormag @nazhongwriting and @benjaminfmoserOn the receding shores of Central Asia's Aral Sea, a Chinese man known as "the King" lives alone in a tent, digging for shrimp eggs. By Liu Zichao, a bold new voice in travel writing, translated by @dylanleviking --
- Replying to @EquatormagIn “Statemania,” Nigerien Rahmane Idrissa remembers how the American Dream came to Africa: “Do you realise” – I often spoke to myself in the second person in those days – “that you are going from the poorest country in the world to the richest?”
- On 31 October, Pankaj Mishra and @NesrineMalik and will be at the Southbank Centre to talk about @Equatormag with Hisham Matar. Get your tickets here: southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/panka…
- On 31 October, Pankaj Mishra and Nesrine Malik will be at the Southbank Centre to talk about Equator and its ambition to depict the world anew with the novelist Hisham Matar. Book here: southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/panka…
