Partition’s Residue

The division of British India in 1947 split the province of Bengal along religious lines into two countries. A great, chaotic migration was set underway leaving millions torn between homelands.

[published: March 10, 2009]

The Country's Daughter

As a “kind of Iraqi” journalist visiting Baghdad for the first time, I was both visiting a foreign country and coming home. (Photo by Kahtan Alamery)

[published: March 10, 2009]

Las Americas Mall

While some stretches of the US-Mexican border are lined with barbed wire, Tijuana’s is lined with designer stores. (Photo by Nick Morris)

[published: March 10, 2009]

Issue 13 Editors' Note

Migration

[published: March 10, 2009]

Misadventure in Time

New York City-based photographer Wayne Liu, born the same year that economic reforms created New China, documents the surreal effects of that country’s mass rural-to-urban migration.

[published: March 10, 2009]

Breathless Jubilee

Sea creatures in the Chesapeake Bay are crawling to land, gasping for air.
(Illustration by Matt Richtards)

[published: March 10, 2009]

The Medium is the Message

Searching the extrasensory world of the Spiritist for obsessors, guides, and good vibrations.

[published: February 13, 2009]

On Being a Sandy Blonde

What it means to have yellow hair in the Middle East.

[published: February 13, 2009]

Editors' Note

Issue 12: Obsession

[published: February 13, 2009]

"Well, Then, I Guess That's No MacGuffin!"

Artists Justin Lieberman and Johan Grimonprez reconstruct alternate histories of the years following World War II, in two exhibitions currently on view in Chelsea.

[published: February 13, 2009]

Celia Farber

For more than two decades, investigative journalist Celia Farber has doggedly pursued the stories about HIV/AIDS that the medical establishment didn’t want people to hear. We talk with her about the ups and downs of being on the “wrong” side of a story, the demise of investigative journalism and the new model offered by her website, The Truth Barrier.

Double vision

Lots of guys like breasts. But for filmmaker Russ Meyer these lumps of fat and gland were much more than a turn-on.
(Illustration by Byron Werner)

[published: February 13, 2009]

Evolved Already

In its pursuit of a wildly inventive sound, Animal Collective has become a minor phenomenon.

[published: February 11, 2009]

Say It Plain

Elizabeth Alexander’s inaugural poem has been criticized as “bureaucratic” and “too prosy” by a generally underwhelmed public. But this may say more about the public’s appetite for soulfulness than it does about the merits of a remarkable work.

[published: January 26, 2009]

In a New Light

Portraits of Americans on the eve of a new era.

[published: January 23, 2009]

Radio Ethiopia

It was music that had brought us there, but we soon turned our attention to other sounds.

[published: January 15, 2009]

Heavy Duty

Nothing makes you realize you’re an animal like growing another one inside you. (Photo by Lauren Lancaster)

[published: January 15, 2009]

Papa Docs

How I found salvation in America’s Voodoo industrial complex by traveling to Haiti

[published: January 15, 2009]

Confessions of a Cyberchondriac

A Wi-Fi-wielding hypochondriac with the common cold is a terror to both hospital and home.

[published: January 14, 2009]

Issue 11 Editors' Note

The Medicine Issue

[published: January 14, 2009]

Garlic

From Memphis to Spain, it makes everybody feel better.

[published: January 14, 2009]

The 42nd

Or how I moved to New York and met a president.

[published: January 14, 2009]

John Hagelin

As panic gripped Wall Street in the final days before the election, Dr. John Hagelin, physics professor and director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Maharishi University of Management and former presidential candidate, announced his own billion-dollar bailout plan. In the heart of the New York’s financial district, his organization opened the Global Financial Capital of New York, aimed at teaching bankers to meditate and thereby saving us all from financial ruin.

[published: November 22, 2008]

Hope in the Streets of New York

When the speech ended, I asked the cabbie his name. “Mamadou”. Mamadou was born in Guinea. He immediately informed me that I would not be paying the fare. “I even just took a man to New Jersey and didn’t let him pay either. This is the greatest country on earth that you could elect a black man president!”

[published: November 11, 2008]

Modern Love Is Not

Love is pain but Modern Love, as published every Sunday in the New York Times, is agony. An inventory of what needs to change.

[published: November 01, 2008]

The 25th Year After

The Day After, The Road, and the long cold night of November 1983.

[published: November 01, 2008]

You Broke It, You Bought It

A photo essay of Wall Street as the subprime lending bubble burst.

[published: October 31, 2008]

Manifesto for a New Economy

A hardscrabble vagabond life is not crippling if you are mentally prepared for it.

[published: October 29, 2008]

The Ballad of Bear Stearns

Scanning headlines from the collapse of one of the world’s biggest investment banks.

[published: October 28, 2008]

The Nine Percent

A country that twice put George W. Bush in office is now on the verge of drastically reversing course.

[published: October 24, 2008]

Suicide is Painless

In America, there are endless ways to make money, and then lose it all.

[published: October 22, 2008]

A War Based Not On Reason

On Oct. 2, 2002, Barack Obama, then a 41-year-old state senator from Illinois, publicly declared his opposition to a war in Iraq at an anti-war rally at the Federal Plaza in Chicago.

[published: October 22, 2008]

Issue 9 Editors' Note

The Boredom Issue

[published: September 24, 2008]

The Re-Enchanter

Joe Milutis knows a lot about nothing. He wrote a book about ether and gives tours of parking lots. He shares an excerpt of his latest project, a short film about a dead mall called The Idea of South, and talks with Last Exit about why he is not afraid of boredom.

[published: September 24, 2008]

The Cruel Boredom of Pornography

The dirty secret of the porn industry is that, with a finite number of ways that human bodies can fit together, its product is repetitive and dull by definition. So it must resort to sexualizing degradation itself.

[published: September 24, 2008]

Boredom: An Alternative Perspective

An ode to the often-overlooked middle ground of existence.

[published: September 24, 2008]

Haiku Lunch

To distract herself from her boring job, a writer posts two very different lunch invitations to Craigslist. One of them sparks a curious literary phenomenon – and possibly even good company.

[published: September 23, 2008]

Ceasefire Over

After 9-11, New York City cops found themselves awash in both federal money and popular adulation. But that still couldn’t make a boring shift pass faster.

[published: September 23, 2008]

The Vanishing Point

A reflection on pleasure, pain and the life and work of David Foster Wallace.

[published: September 15, 2008]

Tompkins Square Riot

On the night of Aug. 6, 1988, a riot broke out in New York’s Tompkins Square Park as police clashed with residents protesting a newly-enforced park curfew.

[published: August 13, 2008]

Issue 8 Editors' Note

The After the Deluge Issue

[published: August 12, 2008]

Six Ways to Say Goodbye

As Shea Stadium nears the end, we celebrate and mourn the underdog from Queens.

[published: August 12, 2008]

The End of the Beginning

A flood of new money has changed the art world and changed New York and now it’s drying up. We’ve seen this all before.

[published: August 12, 2008]

The Kids are Alright

Don’t tell the punks, but they are a trapping of wealth.

[published: August 12, 2008]

Ostalgia

Nostalgia for East Germany’s simpler, if more oppressive, way of life still afflicts the inhabitants of the former DDR, particularly those riding the nicest trams.

[published: August 09, 2008]

The Mistress of Taliesin

Frank Lloyd Wright’s many renovations haven’t exorcised the ghost of his murdered mistress from Taliesin, the home the famed architect built for her in Wisconsin.

[published: August 07, 2008]

Vladimir Keilis-Borok

On the heels of our conversation about predictions with earthquake sensitive, Cal Orey, we now speak with Vladimir Keilis-Borok, professor in residence at UCLA’s Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. Keilis-Borok, who is also the research group leader at the International Institute for Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Moscow, discusses complex systems, prediction algorithms, and forecasting the 2008 presidential election.

[published: July 29, 2008]

Issue 7 Editors' Note

The Subterraneans

[published: June 18, 2008]

Narco Non-News

When a plane linked to the CIA crashed in the Yucatan jungle last year, it suggested the drug trade and its vast profits are not necessarily relegated to the underworld. (Photo by Andrew W. Sieber)

[published: June 18, 2008]

Back Underground

When New York City music subcultures find new rocks to crawl (and thrive) under. (Photo by Nate Dorr)

[published: June 18, 2008]

Off the Beaten Path

In the last strip of wilderness left in Manhattan, a handful of outsiders eke out a primeval living off the radar.

[published: June 18, 2008]

In the Dumps

While the emerging tourism trend of “poorism” has come under attack by critics, a glimpse of Phnom Pen’s garbage village unavoidably leaves Westerners with their priorities challenged.

[published: June 17, 2008]

Cal Orey

Cal Orey describes herself as earthquake sensitive, and claims to have successfully predicted quakes in California and Nevada by studying her seismically intuitive pets and her own physical reactions to underground activity. The author of The Man Who Predicts Earthquakes: Jim Berkland, Maverick Geologist talks to us about syzygy, animals behaving bizarrely, orgasmic ear tones, and the (sometimes) friendly competition between earthquake sensitives and predictors.

[published: June 17, 2008]

Against the Stream

Welcome to Appleby Horse Fair, the temporal favela which establishes itself once a year in northern England as the epicenter of the British Gypsy life.

[published: June 17, 2008]

How We Are

Photographer Joseph Rodriguez has spent his career seeking out the world that exists in the shadows of where we feel comfortable.

[published: June 17, 2008]