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The Japan Beneath the Snow

Keisuke Katano/The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Hiroshi Hamaya: New Year's Visit with Jizo, Niigata Prefecture, 1940 The Japanese photographer Hiroshi Hamaya took many kinds of pictures, from…
AUTHOR:Ian Buruma
PUBLISHED: April 10, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1267 words)
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In Conversion: Michael Pollan and Adam Platt

in conversation Photo: Christopher Anderson Since publishing The Omnivore’s Dilemma in 2006, Michael Pollan has become an ethical-eating guru, pointing the way toward conscientious consumption…
AUTHOR:Adam Platt
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6501 words)

How a Single Spy Helped Turn Pakistan Against the United States

The burly American was escorted by Pakistani policemen into a crowded interrogation room. Amid a clatter of ringing mobile phones and cross talk among the cops speaking a mishmash of Urdu, Punjabi…
PUBLISHED: April 9, 2013
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6232 words)
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A Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood

Nek Muhammad, center, was a Pashtun militant who was killed in 2004, in the first C.I.A. drone strike in Pakistan. Nek Muhammad knew he was being followed.
PUBLISHED: April 6, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2438 words)
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Danse Macabre

Sergei Yurevich Filin, a man of early middle age and improbable beauty, sat behind the wheel of his car on a winter night driving toward home. It was 10 degrees Fahrenheit in the center of Moscow, a…
PUBLISHED: March 18, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1004 words)

How to Build an Igloo in the Arctic. — What I Learned Building…

by Sam Sheridan, author of The Disaster DiariesThe author heads to Nunavik Arctic Survival Training Center, or NASTC, in northern Canada, near Hudson Bay, to learn how to survive if the world freezes…
SOURCE:medium.com
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2324 words)

The Embassy of Cambodia

Illustration by Zohar Lazar. 0 - 1Who would expect the Embassy of Cambodia? Nobody. Nobody could have expected it, or be expecting
PUBLISHED: Feb. 11, 2013
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8411 words)

Wes Anderson’s Worlds

Focus Features Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin to notice that it is, also,…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 31, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1330 words)

How The Ruins Of Detroit Are A Warning For America

I REACHED DOWN the pant cuff with the eraser end of my pencil and poked it. Frozen solid. But definitely human. "Goddamn." I took a deep breath through my cigarette. I didn't want to use my nose. It…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1850 words)
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