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The following post is an excerpt from Sympathy for the Devil: A journalist’s memoir from inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, a completed but unpublished manuscript on contemporary…

Stamatis Moraitis tending his vineyard and olive grove on Ikaria. More Photos » In 1943, a Greek war veteran named Stamatis

Photo: Wilk A. Kim Dotcom is not a pirate. He’s a hero. The savior of my online liberties. A visionary digital entrepreneur. His company Megaupload was a legitimate data-storage business used…

4. Film Studies David Thomson | Narrative Magazine | October 1, 2012 | 33 minutes (8,353 words) [Free; login required] An excerpt from Thomson's new book about the "story of the movies." Thomson…

"Disdaining tourists is the last permitted snobbery, a coded way of distancing oneself from the uncultured classes. And it drives me beyond bonkers to incoherence"  As another holiday high…

By Katherine Eban Dave Voth, Fast and Furious supervisor for the ATF FORTUNE -- In the annals of impossible assignments, Dave Voth's ranked high. In 2009 the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…

IN MOULMEIN, IN LOWER BURMA, I was hated by large numbers of people--the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the…

For a moment, he was obscured by the Havana night. It was as if he were invisible, as he had been before coming to Cuba, in the midst of revolution. Then a burst of floodlights illuminated him:…

Joshua Hammer on the new surge in tourism to Zimbabwe, and its complicated history:

"Even during the worst of the Mugabe years, this fragile system managed to support one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants—between 25,000 and 30,000. And with 105 species of mammals here, including herds of buffalo, eland, zebras, sables, and wildebeests, along with 250 lions, Hwange also has one of the highest levels of biodiversity of any game park in Africa. I’ve barely left the airstrip when the first herd comes into view: two hundred Cape buffalo shambling along the savanna, a pair of jackals prowling at the edge."