World To Come: The Return of Trump and the End of the Old OrderThe old world is dying, the new world struggles to be born, wrote the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci at the end of World War I. Now is the time of monsters. A witness to the rise of fascism in Italy, Gramsci understood transitions can be dangerous. The world today is at a similar inflection point. With Donald Trump victorious in the 2024 US presidential election, the Western liberal order presided by the United States since the end of the Second

Wong Phui Nam (1935-2022) was a Malaysian poet

His personal struggles -as well as his many personal triumphs - are vividly chronicled in The Life of Isamu Noguchi

They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe

While the term 'Malay' is widely used and readily understood in Southeast Asia

spontaneity and defiance

her empathetic gaze

From the ever-changing urban landscape of Dubai

Ann Jaafar

ideologies and more importantly

a montage in retrospect spanning a decade

To pass the time

and Paulino Garagorri