Varun Nayar

Zain Alam, the musician behind Humeysha, layers new sounds over archival audio to test traditional ideas of authenticity.

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

Economic inequality and unregulated carbon emissions are predicted to continue to exacerbate damage in an already-vulnerable region of the world.

Maryland resident Jarrod Ramos opened fire in the Capital Gazette newspaper offices in Annapolis, shooting and killing five employees.

Saudi Arabia is set to lift its decades-old ban on women driving on Sunday.

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Francisco Cantú's memoir of his time as a Border Patrol agent asks some important questions about violence, complicity, and the blurred lines between people and the institutions they serve.

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Last month, the former Hindu monarchy overwhelmingly voted for a communist prime minister who promises economic growth and political stability. How did they get to this point?

Our favorite stories from 2017 that were published elsewhere, chosen by the Pacific Standard staff.

The 2017 MacArthur Genius Fellowship recipient's interdisciplinary work on the Bay of Bengal teaches us that movement and migration are central forces in the making of Asian—and global—history.

For Labor Day, a selection of our most recent stories on the American worker.

A look at some of our stories for U.S. independence day.

After a 20-year hiatus from fiction, the Indian writer and activist returns to challenge the limits of the contemporary Indian novel.

The rocket helped propel a three-tonne GSAT-19 satellite into orbit, the country's largest to date.