Wherein the author spends a decade acquiring knowledge of country and/or western music, Elvis’s stillborn twin, Bidenomics in the wild, bathroom cruising, wax statuary, race relations, and the soul of the nation

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How a group of NIMBYs rewrote Alderney’s history

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A disappearance in Arkansas

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Tell me how the story ends

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Homesteaders on the margins of America

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At the border

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Searching for the solar system’s origins at the end of the earth

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A copper rush sparks last-ditch battles for Arizona’s soul

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Harvest on an American family farm

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The ragged glory of female activism

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Touring Israel with 450 Christian Zionists

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The making and unmaking of a half-billion-dollar treasure hunt

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The vanishing breed of the country vet

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Photographs of airports by twenty photographers, with an essay by Geoff Dyer

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The dignity and challenge of solitude

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What liberation looks like for Afghan women

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A Marine returns to a divided Iraq

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The lost glory of America’s railroads

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Two years ago, in February 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which called on the Federal Aviation Administration to “provide for the safe…

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Mastering the art of serving the rich

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Stalking the dead composer through Transylvania

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Of murder and mushrooms

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On the second floor of a characterless hotel in the British Crown Colony of Gibraltar, a lithe, agile man in his late fifties restlessly paced his bedroom. His very British…

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A correction

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Racial preferences color America’s oldest skulls and bones

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Searching for the Chinese tunnels of Mexicali

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Glory, grief, and the race for the Triple Crown

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Searching for Charles Taylor in a Liberian civil war

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