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Description and travel

Razing Arizona

by Christopher Ketcham,

Will drought destroy the Southwest?

Sochi’s Troubled Neighbor

by Bill Donahue,

A journey through a Russian client state on the Black Sea

Bad Romance

by Jesse Barron,

One genre and a billion happy endings

The Oa

by Colin McAdam,

On the pleasures and perils of whisky

The Lost Yearling

by Lauren Groff,

An American classic fades away

The Rat’s Guide

by Amitava Kumar,

By Amitava Kumar, from A Matter of Rats, a “short biography” of his hometown of Patna, India, to be published by Duke University Press in April. Patna is the capital…

In Gabrovo

by Patrick Leigh Fermor,

By Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011), from The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, to be published in March by New York Review Books. Edited by Colin Thubron…

Loving Las Vegas

by Colson Whitehead,

What the prudes get wrong about Sin City

Showing a Little Leg

by Dan Keane,

A pilgrimage to Ellen Altfest’s body paintings

Killing Deer

by Jean Halley,

A hard death on the high road

The Highbrander

by Lucy Bird,

From an October 9, 2012, email sent by Lucy Bird, then chief executive of Marketing Edinburgh, to city councillors Sue Brice and Alastair Maclean, during the development of an ad…