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Child waits.

Yearning For Normalcy

When violence displaced thousands after Kenya’s disputed elections, a native of Nairobi’s second largest slum got a knock on the door – and 13 new roommates in his one-bedroom apartment.

By Titus Kuria

Issue 4 Editors' Note

On Violence And Conflict

By Last Exit Staff

Kassa Korley

From Fish To Fischer?

The rapid rise of a new kind of chess champion. With photographs by Kramer O’Neill.

By Keach Hagey

5 Questions

I Don't Want to Blow You Up!

Brooklyn artist Ricardo Cortes just might be the most controversial children’s author working today. Consider that in 2005 he self-published an illustrated educational book about marijuana called It’s Just a Plant that drew the wrath of everyone from school librarians to legislators. Undaunted, Cortes and co-author F. Bowman Hastie III recently released a 32-page coloring book called I Don’t Want to Blow You Up!, which delivers a post-9/11 anti-xenophobic message. The authors explained the impetus behind the book in an interview conducted via e-mail.

Abubu with a bullet.

“Killing Hope Can Make People Go Crazy”

An American resident of Nairobi reacts to Kenya’s post-election violence

By Megan White

The pants.

New Jack City

This is the story of three jackings, numerous near-death experiences and the good fun had by everyone in Southeast Asia but me.

By Nicole Whelan

5 Questions Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer

The veteran foreign correspondent for the New York Times and author of Overthrow — the account of how the U.S. government violently toppled 14 governments, not always to its benefit — talks to us about Benazir Bhutto’s checkered past, the importance of datelines and why Rwanda is the greatest African success story you’ve never heard.

Art History Is A Blood Sport

A bitter exchange over the Venice Biennale that unfolded in the pages of Artforum was firmly rooted in the legacy of the the 1960s, which still has a tight grip on art history and the culture at large.

By Helen Hsu

Not In Play

Before U.S. Army soldiers go to “the theater” in Iraq, they play out the war on a stage set in California’s Mojave Desert. An excerpt from the upcoming documentary of the surreal simulation, Full Battle Rattle, followed by an interview with director/producers Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss.

By Keach Hagey