Chloe Hadavas
@hadavas.bsky.social
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senior editor & books,
@foreignpolicy.com
Recently had the pleasure of editing this gorgeous review of
@juliaioffe.bsky.social
's new book, Motherland, in
@foreignpolicy.com
:
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How a âFairy-Tale Countryâ for Women Turned Its Back on Feminism
Julia Ioffeâs new feminist history of Russia offers important lessons for the West.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/21/julia-ioffe-motherland-russia-feminist-soviet-history-womens-rights/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=anVsaWEtaW9mZmUtbW90aGVybGFuZC1ydXNzaWEtZmVtaW5pc3Qtc292aWV0LWhpc3Rvcnktd29tZW5zLXJpZ2h0cw==&pid=PNINzQGOyq8waqm
about 23 hours ago
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In
@foreignpolicy.com
's latest monthly fiction column,
@ameakem.bsky.social
and I review two new haunting Nordic novels set at sea, from the fjords of Norway to imperial-era Helsinki:
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A Pair of Haunting New Scandinavian Novels
Plus, more international fiction releases.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/14/international-fiction-releases-iida-turpeinen-beasts-sea-frode-grytten-ferryman-wife/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=aW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbC1maWN0aW9uLXJlbGVhc2VzLWlpZGEtdHVycGVpbmVuLWJlYXN0cy1zZWEtZnJvZGUtZ3J5dHRlbi1mZXJyeW1hbi13aWZl&pid=PNINzQGOyq8waqm
7 days ago
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A wonderfully reported profile of Peter Magyar, Orban's main challenger in the upcoming Hungarian election, by
@lilirutai.bsky.social
in
@foreignpolicy.com
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The Man Who Could Topple Orban
How Peter Magyar went from a former Fidesz insider to Hungaryâs most popular politician.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/07/hungary-election-viktor-orban-peter-magyar-opposition-challenger/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=aHVuZ2FyeS1lbGVjdGlvbi12aWt0b3Itb3JiYW4tcGV0ZXItbWFneWFyLW9wcG9zaXRpb24tY2hhbGxlbmdlcg==&pid=PNINzQGOyq8waqm
15 days ago
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The climate crisis is "a great dividerâa force that ensures only the survival of the wealthiest." Yet
@meghamaj.bsky.social
"shows that the poor, too, can come out alive ... instead of becoming an inert statistic" Somak Ghoshal's brilliant review of A Guardian and a Thief in
@foreignpolicy.com
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Even Doomsday Will Divide Us
Megha Majumdarâs âA Guardian and a Thiefâ interrogates how the have-nots get by in a climate catastrophe.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/24/review-guardian-thief-megha-majumdar-climate-crisis-india/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=cmV2aWV3LWd1YXJkaWFuLXRoaWVmLW1lZ2hhLW1hanVtZGFyLWNsaW1hdGUtY3Jpc2lzLWluZGlh&pid=PNINzQGOyq8waqm
26 days ago
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I was bowled over by
@annanorth.bsky.social
's new novel, Bog Queen. My review (alongside
@ameakem.bsky.social
on Jaquira DĂaz's debut) in
@foreignpolicy.com
:
foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/03/i...
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The Novels Weâre Reading in October
Historical fiction set in ancient Britain and 20th-century Puerto Rico.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/03/international-fiction-releases-anna-north-bog-queen-jaquira-diaz-only-kingdom/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=aW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbC1maWN0aW9uLXJlbGVhc2VzLWFubmEtbm9ydGgtYm9nLXF1ZWVuLWphcXVpcmEtZGlhei1vbmx5LWtpbmdkb20=&pid=PNINzQGOyq8waqm
about 2 months ago
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Chloe Hadavas
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about 2 months ago
This October, FPâs
@hadavas.bsky.social
and
@ameakem.bsky.social
dive into historical fiction set in ancient Britain and 20th-century Puerto Rico.
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The Novels Weâre Reading in October
Historical fiction set in ancient Britain and 20th-century Puerto Rico.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/03/international-fiction-releases-anna-north-bog-queen-jaquira-diaz-only-kingdom/
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Howard French
4 months ago
In "The Second Emancipation," I offer a reinterpretation of much of the 20th century from the perspective of Africa and Africans. See the follow on bubble for more.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/s...
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The Political Giant the West Forgot
Kwame Nkrumahâs life demonstrates that the end of colonial rule in Africa is central to modern history.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/second-emancipation-africa-decolonization-ghana-kwame-nkrumah-history/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=c2Vjb25kLWVtYW5jaXBhdGlvbi1hZnJpY2EtZGVjb2xvbml6YXRpb24tZ2hhbmEta3dhbWUtbmtydW1haC1oaXN0b3J5&pid=PNIN6wSF3rd6ba8
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"In addition to destabilizing democracies and championing imperialists, the CIA has always had great taste in art"âincluding a books program that fueled the Polish underground. A real pleasure to edit this review of
@charlieenglish1.bsky.social
's latest book in FP:
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/01/c...
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The Most Successful CIA Operation Youâve Never Heard of
How the agencyâs program to circulate banned books helped take down the Iron Curtain.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/01/cia-book-club-us-intelligence-cold-war-polish-underground-banned-literature/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=Y2lhLWJvb2stY2x1Yi11cy1pbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UtY29sZC13YXItcG9saXNoLXVuZGVyZ3JvdW5kLWJhbm5lZC1saXRlcmF0dXJl&pid=PNINzQGOyq8waqm
4 months ago
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Foreign Policy
4 months ago
In this monthâs international fiction column, FPâs
@hadavas.bsky.social
and
@ameakem.bsky.social
recommend two newly released novels to beat the summer heat, both featuring manâs best friend.
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The Novels Weâre Reading in August
The dog days of summer, from an 18th-century English village to modern-day Tbilisi.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/01/international-fiction-releases-hounding-xenobe-purvis-dog-georgia-lauren-grodstein/
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Thea Riofrancos
4 months ago
Honored to see EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism featured in
@foreignpolicy.com
books of the summer đ đ Out in September, pre-order here
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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We released our Books of the Summer list
@foreignpolicy.com
over the weekendâwith new titles from
@hofrench.bsky.social
,
@emmamashford.bsky.social
,
@triofrancos.bsky.social
,
@tim-weiner.bsky.social
,
@thantmyintu.bsky.social
, & more:
foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/18/s...
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FPâs Books of the Summer
The biggest releases in foreign affairs, history, and economics.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/18/summer-books-new-releases-international-relations-global-affairs-history/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=c3VtbWVyLWJvb2tzLW5ldy1yZWxlYXNlcy1pbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsLXJlbGF0aW9ucy1nbG9iYWwtYWZmYWlycy1oaXN0b3J5&pid=PNINzQGOyq8waqm
4 months ago
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Tim Weiner
5 months ago
For THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century -- out July 15! -- I interviewed the chief of the CIA's clandestine service, Tom Sylvester. (Sitting CIA spymasters do not, as a rule, talk to reporters.) Here's an excerpt from the book, a deep look inside the CIA today.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/11/c...
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When the Threat Is Inside the White House
What CIA insiders make of the MAGA moles and toadies now in charge of U.S. national security.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/11/cia-trump-us-intelligence-agency-spies-maga-national-security/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=Y2lhLXRydW1wLXVzLWludGVsbGlnZW5jZS1hZ2VuY3ktc3BpZXMtbWFnYS1uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eQ==&pid=CW3800994
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July releases (& more!) in
@foreignpolicy.com
's latest monthly fiction column with
@ameakem.bsky.social
foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/04/i...
5 months ago
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Howard French
6 months ago
My column for the week, which builds on William Kirby's fascinating new book, Empires of Ideas.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/10/t...
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Can the U.S. Be a Great Power Without Harvard?
Trumpâs attacks on American universities come as China seeks to dominate higher education.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/10/trump-harvard-attacks-us-universities-great-power-china-history/
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Jordan Hoffman, your friend.
6 months ago
It's far from the biggest hit in the world of streaming, but I found a lot that was amusing in CARĂME, currently on Apple TV+. (Empress Josephine gets schtupped right in the ice house!) Here's more:
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/06/c...
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The French TV Show That Turns Souffle Into Statecraft
CarĂȘme gives an international audience what it wants: rich food, lusty romps, and Napoleon.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/06/careme-review-french-apple-tv/
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Truly cannot stop raving to everyone I know about Maria Reva's debut novel, Endling. My reviewâalongside
@ameakem.bsky.social
's take on Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo's latestâin
@foreignpolicy.com
:
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/06/i...
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The Novels Weâre Reading in June
Peculiar forms of criminality, as seen from front-line Ukraine and Lagos.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/06/international-fiction-releases-maria-reva-endling-esther-ifesinachi-okonkwo-tiny-things-heavier/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=aW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbC1maWN0aW9uLXJlbGVhc2VzLW1hcmlhLXJldmEtZW5kbGluZy1lc3RoZXItaWZlc2luYWNoaS1va29ua3dvLXRpbnktdGhpbmdzLWhlYXZpZXI=&pid=PNINzQGOyq8waqm
6 months ago
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Lili Pike
6 months ago
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
out this week with a very important piece of service journalism, on Washington's oddly common "Gee" Jinping problem:
link.foreignpolicy.com/view/66744b4...
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Welcome to Foreign Policyâs China Briefâsummer vacation edition.
https://link.foreignpolicy.com/view/66744b45744e6df0200d0748nwemf.s7s/3372d71e
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Suzanne Cope
6 months ago
In an article for Foreign Policy mag, adapted from my book Women of War, I wrote about the power of the independent press - & mentioned you all Bluesky-ers! Read here
shorturl.at/pxY8j
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The Secret Newspapers That Helped Defeat Fascism
The women behind Italyâs underground press during World War II offer important lessons for democracies today.
https://shorturl.at/pxY8j
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David Milne
6 months ago
An excerpt in
@foreignpolicy.com
from Andrew Preston's superb new book, Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/30/f...
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How FDR Invented National Security
A presidential speech in 1937 marked an unexpected turn in U.S. strategic thought.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/30/fdr-roosevelt-national-security-us-foreign-policy-history-quarantine-speech/
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Howard French
6 months ago
Excited to learn that French-language rights for my forthcoming book have already been sold. There's a lot of French imperial history here. Details to come.
www.publishersweekly.com/9781324092452
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The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide by Howard W French
In this magisterial account, journalist French (Born in Blackness) revisits the history of the Pan-Africanist movement through t...
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781324092452
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The sparkling brilliance of
@mollyolmstead.bsky.social
on full display:
slate.com/life/2025/05...
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I Guess It Makes Sense the New Pope Would Do This. But Itâs a Bummer!
I used to show people the old website at parties. It was that funny.
https://slate.com/life/2025/05/pope-leo-new-vatican-website-news-2025.html
6 months ago
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Lili Pike
6 months ago
In 2021, China joined the Kigali Agreement, and pledged to stop emitting HFC-23, a climate super pollutant 14,700x stronger than CO2. The latest atmospheric readings show China is way off track,
@mckennapr.bsky.social
& I report in our deep dive:
foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/21/c...
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China Claims It Slashed Emissions of a Major Super Pollutant. The Data Says Otherwise.
As of 2023, China continued to emit HFC-23 at high levels in violation of an international agreement.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/21/china-hfc-23-emissions-kigali-amendment-climate-data/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=Y2hpbmEtaGZjLTIzLWVtaXNzaW9ucy1raWdhbGktYW1lbmRtZW50LWNsaW1hdGUtZGF0YQ==&pid=PNIURtYd7sex62t
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Allison Meakem
6 months ago
The Gaza Sunbirds paracycling team announced that an Israeli airstrike on Monday killed one of their members, Ahmed Al-Dali.
@foreignpolicy.com
ran a feature on the Sunbirds and their quest to compete in the Paralympics last September.
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Meet the Para-Cyclists Riding for Gaza
The Sunbirdsâ story began with tragedy but has evolved into one of resilience.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/02/gaza-sunbirds-paracycling-paralympics-palestine-sports-disability/
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Reviewed
@jemmawei.bsky.social
's glorious debut novel, The Original Daughter, in
@foreignpolicy.com
's latest fiction column:
foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/02/i...
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The Novels Weâre Reading in May
From the Gulf as a modern Wild West to sisterhood in Singapore.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/02/international-fiction-releases-mo-ogrodnik-gulf-jemimah-wei-original-daughter/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=aW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbC1maWN0aW9uLXJlbGVhc2VzLW1vLW9ncm9kbmlrLWd1bGYtamVtaW1haC13ZWktb3JpZ2luYWwtZGF1Z2h0ZXI=&pid=PNINzQGOyq8waqm
7 months ago
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Marie Le Conte
7 months ago
guys! I have huge news! as of this week I now have a monthly sports column (!) in the new Observer first piece will be in the paper on Sunday but it's already online:
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
[free to read!]
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Allison Meakem
8 months ago
Lovers of romcoms AND foreign policy: Meet "Liquid." In her debut novel, Mariam Rahmani offers both flitty summer romance and critiques of U.S. sanctions on Iran. My review is in FP's April fiction column!
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The Novels Weâre Reading in April
Two head-spinning rides through a globalized world.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/04/international-fiction-releases-david-szalay-flesh-mariam-rahmani-liquid/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=aW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbC1maWN0aW9uLXJlbGVhc2VzLWRhdmlkLXN6YWxheS1mbGVzaC1tYXJpYW0tcmFobWFuaS1saXF1aWQ=&pid=PNIyJGq9lqgrvm4
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A snapshot of the April releases I've rounded up in
@foreignpolicy.com
's latest fiction column:
foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/04/i...
8 months ago
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Howard French
8 months ago
Some thoughts about the ongoing assault on universities, and how it fits into the bigger picture.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/03/t...
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Trumpâs Real Motives in Attacking U.S. Universities
How the presidentâs crackdown on higher education fits into his broader political program.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/03/trump-attacking-universities-funding-us-politics/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=dHJ1bXAtYXR0YWNraW5nLXVuaXZlcnNpdGllcy1mdW5kaW5nLXVzLXBvbGl0aWNz&pid=PNINzQGOyq8waqm
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Foreign Policy
9 months ago
This month, FPâs editors are reading about dystopias real and imagined, from a crime drama set in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to a novel about a convent in a climate-ravaged world.
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The Novels Weâre Reading in March
From a killing in the West Bank to horror in a postapocalyptic convent.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/07/international-fiction-releases-lawrence-wright-human-scale-agustina-bazterrica-unworthy/
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Foreign Policy
11 months ago
From dystopian Korea to colonial Taiwan, FPâs Chloe Hadavas and Allison Meakem review novels in translation that explore gender, race, and class in East Asia.
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The Novels Weâre Reading in January
From dystopian Korea to colonial Taiwan.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/10/international-fiction-new-releases-review-yang-shuang-zi-taiwan-travelogue-gu-byeong-mo-apartment-women/
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Sina Toossi
10 months ago
Pankaj Mishraâs piece is a searing, unflinching reckoning with the moral collapse of much of the US & Europe in the face of the Gaza genocide. One of the most important pieces written on the subject to date. Piercing, devastating & impossible to ignore.
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How Gaza Shattered the Westâs Mythology
The war has exposed post-World War II illusions of a common humanity.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/07/pankaj-mishra-world-after-gaza-book-israel-war-global-order-history/
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Allison Meakem
10 months ago
FP's February fiction column is out! I review Aria Aber's "Good Girl," which follows the daughter of Afghan refugees as she immerses herself in Berlin's underworld.
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The Novels Weâre Reading in February
From a British techno-dystopia to Berlinâs underground.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/07/international-fiction-new-releases-books-ali-smith-gliff-aria-aber-good-girl/
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