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Heaven’s Door

by Pico Iyer,

From The Half Known Life, which will be published this month by Riverhead Books. Four hours in Iran, and already I was having to rethink almost everything. The local guide…

Eating the Whale

by Wyatt Williams,

A personal history of meat

The Great Divide

by Maddy Crowell,

Traveling by rail through India’s disputed north

You Can Run …

by Walter Kirn,

I have a theory — not a very good one — that the reason Google is so hot to develop self-driving cars is that time behind the wheel is the…

City of Gilt

by Tanya Gold,

Searching for the town I used to love

My Holy Land Vacation

by Tom Bissell,

Touring Israel with 450 Christian Zionists

White Rhino, Namibia, 2015

by Maroesjka Lavigne,

Motes from Underground

by Peter Andrey Smith,

Will cave soil save us from drug-resistant superbugs?

Silent Majority

by John Berger,

From Portraits, by John Berger, which was published last month by Verso. A contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine, Berger is the author of numerous books, including Ways of Seeing (1972).

Pakistan in Miniatures

by Sage Mehta,

Can the artists of Lahore keep violence at bay?

The Quietest Place in the Universe

by Kent Meyers,

Digging for dark matter in an abandoned mine