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In the Tenderloin
San Francisco’s most infamous neighborhood through the lens of Pieter Hugo
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‘Hermit of the Jungle’ Guards a Brazilian Ghost City Rich in History
Shigeru Nakayama looks after Airão Velho, once the site of an Amazon rain forest rubber boom, which now lies in ruins.
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Scorched
For Central American migrants, the promise of work in the fields of California has dried up.
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Lusitania: The epic battle over its biggest mystery
Gregg Bemis, owner of the salvage rights to the Lusitania, wants to solve the mystery of why it sank so quickly. He may not get the chance.
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The War Nerd: Escape From East Timor (Part One)
BITOLA, MACEDONIA — Indonesia just executed two Australians by firing squad, putting a bit of a chill into bilateral relations. For me, this is great news. Until now, I had been led to believe that the tension between Indonesia and Australia was my fault...
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Julian Barnes: ‘Art doesn’t just capture the thrill of life ... sometimes it is that thrill’
When Julian Barnes was growing up, going to a gallery felt like an obligation. Then he discovered modernism, with its slicings, whirls and brainy grids. Later still, realism seemed equally fascinating and truthful. He recalls a life looking at art.
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Mes Aynak: A Story of Courage and a Priceless World Treasure in Afghanistan
An archaeologist and a filmmaker fight the good fight to save an ancient monumental center from the brink of destruction.
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The Desert Blues
In 2001, two unlikely friends created a music festival in Mali that drew the likes of Bono and Robert Plant. Then radical Islam tore them apart.
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The Toughest Woman on Two Wheels
“You grow up in a cult,” says Juliana Buhring, “and everybody thinks there’s something wrong with you.”
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Coolest jobs in tech (literally): running a South Pole data center
You know it's cold when you have to heat the air used to cool your data center.
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The Great & Beautiful Lost Kingdoms
William Dalrymple reviews the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibitions “Buddhism Along the Silk Road, 5th–8th Century” and “Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, Fifth to Eighth Century.”
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Tears of the Sun
The gold rush at the top of the world.
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Anomalistic Human Geography: The Disappearance of Tuanaki
“If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure and structure alone."
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The Lost City of Z
Uncovering a hidden civilization in the Amazon. (2005)
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The Things I Carried Back
By John F. Burns
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Spin the Globe, Sri Lanka
The Two Faces of Paradise
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The Price of a Life
John Restivo was wrongfully convicted. Can he be compensated for decades of lost freedom?
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End of the lines
Jerome Boyd Maunsell reviews Nicholas Faith’s The World the Railways Made; Tom Zoellner’s Train: Riding the rails that created the modern world – from the Trans-Siberian to the ‘Southwest Chief’; Andrew Martin’s Belles & Whistles: Five journeys through time on Britain’s trains
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Accidental Encounters With A Badass 8th Century Buddhist Mystic
Over the course of a dozen years of working and rambling around the Himalaya, I’ve been followed by a certain pair of eyes. They belong to Padmasambhava, the meditating mystic-missionary-magician who brought Buddhist teachings from India to Tibet in the 8th century CE and perhaps best known as Guru Rinpoche. Like some kind of tantric Tyler Durden...
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The Allure of Dark Tourism
The French photographer Ambroise Tézenas travelled the world to document sightseers at Auschwitz, Chernobyl, and other disaster sites.
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