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(Photo by JB Reed)

The Desert

A photographic trek into the unmapped spaces on the edges of suburbia.

By JB Reed

Issue 17 Editors' Note

Exploration

By Last Exit Staff

Mystery, Alaska

In 1989, I found my mom a job in the classifieds and we moved to Massachusetts. Sixteen years later, she left there for Alaska, where she had never been before. I have never asked her why. Now I do.

By Bryan Joiner

place Henry Hudson, from Cyclopaedia of Universal History, 1885.

The Failed Explorer Who Founded New York

Henry Hudson’s wife couldn’t even manage to get a statue erected in his honor after he was murdered by his crew. But today, New York state is sparing no expense to mark the 400th anniversary of his most important discovery.

By James S Kaplan

Honoring Life By Acting Out Death

The pilgrimage of Santa Marta de Ribarteme in the northwest part of Spain brings together family, food and faith.

By Els Duran & Marieke Aafjes

Pointing in the Same Direction

Remembering our incomprehensible dream of going to the moon.

By Alfred Menchaca

art <i>Black Acid Co-op</i> by Justin Lowe and Jonah Freman, on view at Deitch Projects in New York. (Photo by Greg Kessler)

Urban Methology

This week only, the perfect date night: meth lab and a movie

By Cynthia Daignault

flavor A farm stand in Maine. (Photo by Anne Dailey)

You Are Where You Eat

Nothing reveals the character of a place like talking to its farmers, shopping at its farm stands and sifting through the recipes its people dreamed up before everything was available everywhere.

By Anne Dailey