Fiction — From the May 2012 issue
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Article — From the October 1993 issue
A journey through south China, land of capitalist miracles, where yesterday’s rice paddy becomes tomorrow’s metropolis, and a thousand factories bloom
By Paul Theroux
American miscellany — From the June 1981 issue
S.J. Perelman remembered
By Paul Theroux
Lucas Mann on hope and change in a minor-league-baseball city

Minimum number of baboons forced to smoke crack in a 1989 study testing the efficacy of cigarettes as a drug delivery device:

A reduction in distrust toward atheists was documented among pious Canadians who are reminded of the Vancouver police.

A Missouri cinema apologized for hiring an actor dressed in body armor and carrying a fake rifle to appear at a screening of Iron Man 3.
Winner of the 2012 Olivier Rebbot Award for best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books
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