Focus on women for this issue. There is also a series of powerful photographic images of women in wartime situations, from Afghanistan, Iraq, India and Chechnya. And an article by Daniela Danna, an extract from her recently published book, analysing the so-called oldest profession in the world, prostitution.

Water and power. That is the title of an environmental piece from Adriano Paolella from the series “Environment and Community”.

Also this month, a consideration of the work of Franz Kafka on the 80th anniversary of his death, by Michael Löwy.

by Leslie Ray