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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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In the Tenderloin
San Francisco’s most infamous neighborhood through the lens of Pieter Hugo
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A burnt-out fairground
A selection from David Pryce-Jones's memoir reveals the literary world, anti-Semitism, and changing politics of twentieth-century Europe.
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Searching for Clues to Mystery of Ancient Americans
Among the things they left behind are beautiful ruins, a gorgeously woven basket and a nearly impossible to get to granary on a cliff.
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The War Nerd: Escape from East Timor (Part Two)
I saw it now, nosing through the gate like a shark sniffing around a tank. It made for us, but slowly, slowly. Time slows down, they say. So did the van. It cut across our bows and came very slowly to an almost-stop. The left side-window went down...
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In Flight
En route from London to Tokyo, a pilot’s-eye view of life in the sky.
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The long drive to end a pregnancy
On the 407 miles of open road between home and a Montana abortion clinic, a woman has a lot of time to think about how she got from there to here
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Green Arabia
By Maciej Cegłowski
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Psychologically, there are two L.A.’s. One is where Naomi Watts gets to be the sunny aspiring actress Betty and have beautiful teeth and a gorgeous lesbian relationship with an amnesiac Laura Harring. The other is where Naomi Watts is Diane, with fucked-up teeth, an unrequited romantic obsession, and a bullet in her head. They’re both the same movie, and none of it makes any sense. But it says something about how the city sees itself: things are one way, or suddenly another.
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In Sanaa
By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
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Ap Bu Nho
A Remembrance for Memorial Day
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Off Diamond Head
To be thirteen, with a surfboard, in Hawaii. By WIlliam Finnegan.
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Fly Trans-Love Airways (1967)
This story originally appeared in The New Yorker and is excerpted from After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction, a new collection from Renata Adler.
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Luxury Living in a Failed State
Luanda, Angola—not Moscow, Tokyo, or Hong Kong—has become the world’s most expensive city for expats.
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Life and Death on the Avocado Trail
A fearless Mexican-American cook routinely travels 2,000 miles, driving through a drug war and slipping out of kidnappers’ fingers, all in the name of a decent mole poblano for her New York customers.
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The Root of All Things
Halfway through our hour-long Skype call, Carlos Tanner warns me that he is going to “cross over”. He means that our conversation is about to leap from things that make sense in this world—how his new baby is sleeping, how many students are enrolling in his school—into things that only make sense if …
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Welcome to Dog World!
It was Blair Braverman’s dream job: living on a glacier in the remote Alaskan wilderness, driving a team of huskies through the snow, showing tourists the real Alaska. Then one day things got too real.
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Black Hole Hunters
Aiming to make the first portrait of the hungry monster at the center of our galaxy, astronomers built “a telescope as big as the world.”
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Displaced in the Dominican Republic
A country strips 210,000 of citizenship. By Rachel Nolan.
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In Welsh Patagonia
After years of idle dreams, Jasper Rees visits the valleys in Argentina that have been an outpost of Wales for 150 years.
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