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The Thin Red Line

Just after midnight on April 25th, a Syrian medical technician who calls himself Majid Daraya was sitting at home, in the city of Daraya, five miles from the outskirts of Damascus, when he heard an…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8294 words)

Are These the New Essayists?

My Heart is an Idiot: Essays By Davy RothbartFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 307 pp., $25
PUBLISHED: Feb. 18, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3382 words)

LRB · Theo Tait · Don’t wear yum-yum yellow: Shark Attack!

Demon Fish: Travels through the Hidden World of Sharks by Juliet Eilperin Duckworth, 295 pp, £18.99, January, ISBN 978 0 7156 4291 7 ‘Many scientists don’t like to talk about shark sex,’ Juliet…
AUTHOR:Theo Tait
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3409 words)

The mass graves of Kashmir

One sodden evening in April 2010, an Indian army major from the 4 Rajputana Rifles arrived at a remote police post where the mountains gather in a half-hitch around Kashmir, India's northernmost…
PUBLISHED: July 9, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2702 words)

Disaster Tourism: My Day In Nuclear Ruins

The road to Pripyat, Chernobyl's long-abandoned city, runs through a budding forest.The pines here are all relatively young; the original forest died from radiation poisoning more than a…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3639 words)
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The Filthy Rich and The Racists in Mongolia’s Mining Boom

When Tugsjargal Munkherdene discovered hip-hop, he was a boy growing up in the smog-choked tent slums of Ulaanbaatar.The Soviet Union had just collapsed, and Mongolia — formerly a sparse…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4083 words)
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