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Rotten Ice

by Gretel Ehrlich,

Traveling by dogsled in the melting Arctic

“Today Is Better Than Tomorrow”

by Benjamin Busch,

A Marine returns to a divided Iraq

My Two Visits to Verdun

by Walter Hale,

commenced in February. It was over the Voie Sacrée that the gallant Twentieth Corps — the corps d’attaque that has been used as the drivingwedge in every big assault since…

Badlands

by Vladimir Pozner,

From diary entries made during a 1936 visit to America by Vladimir Pozner (1905–1992), a French novelist and screenwriter, included in his travelogue The Disunited States, published last month for…

Brussels Spleen

by Charles Baudelaire,Translated by Richard Sieburth,

From an outline for a book Charles Baudelaire planned to write on Belgium, where he lived from 1864 until shortly before his death, in 1867. The outline is published in…

War Games

by Brian Turner,

By Brian Turner, from My Life as a Foreign Country, out next month from W. W. Norton. Turner, a veteran of the Iraq war, is the author of two books…

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21st Century Limited

by Kevin Baker,

The lost glory of America’s railroads

Islands

by Hilton Als,

By Hilton Als, written on the occasion of Peter Doig’s exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts this spring and published in Transition 113. Als’s “I Am Your Conscious,…

The Quinoa Quarrel

by Lisa M. Hamilton,

Who owns the world’s greatest superfood?

Into Africa

by Howard W. French,

By Howard W. French, from China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa, published this month by Knopf. French is a former New York…