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Survivors

Years ago, along the cacophonous roads leading from Ramses Train Station in Cairo, I came across a small girl with a bright red headscarf weaving her way in and out of the slow-moving traffic, her…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4273 words)

Embracing the Void

Sensory deprivation is as close as you can get to a drug-induced experience without the drugs.lllustration by Robert Neubecker How did I end up naked in a stranger’s apartment—floating in a saltwater…
PUBLISHED: May 15, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2334 words)

Jon Wiener on FDR and the Jews

Triptych: Meghann McCrory, "Expulsion from Tomorrow" (Tent of Tomorrow, New York State Pavilion, designed by Philip Johnson, New York World's Fair 1964), collage, 2010 WHEN GEORGE BUSH saw pictures…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2521 words)

Splendid no more

It is early morning, and I am sitting on a boulder near the bottom of Yosemite Falls. I have lost my bearings, meandering around in a maze of paved trails that I never knew existed until today. I…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3188 words)
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For Asian Undocumented Immigrants, a Life of Secrecy

A street in the Flushing section of the Queens borough of New York. The district manager of Queens Community Board 7, which includes downtown Flushing, estimates that around 40,000 undocumented…
PUBLISHED: May 14, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5663 words)

How Human Evolution Prepared Us to Survive Future Disasters

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SOURCE:io9.com

James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature

'I always knew writing a novel was a great thing': James Salter at home in Bridgehampton, Long Island, May 2013. Photograph: Ed Betz/Ap Eight years ago, the writer James Salter received a telephone…
PUBLISHED: May 11, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4193 words)
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At the Seder

In 2004 Damascus was on the cusp of modernity. The first privately operated bank had just been established, plans for a securities exchange were underway, the internet was in its infancy, and the Old…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2425 words)

The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from

Excerpted from "Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing" The 18th and 19th centuries’ embrace of linguistic delicacy and extreme avoidance of taboo bestowed great power on those words that broached…
PUBLISHED: May 11, 2013
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4658 words)
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