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Description and travel

The jungle is obscene

by Werner Herzog,Translated by Krishna Winston,

by Negar Azimi,

by Jon Mooallem,

Excavating a galaxy far, far away

by Siddhartha Deb,

Along India's border, a forgotten Burmese rebellion

by Suki Kim,

The New York Philharmonic's fantasia in North Korea

by John Berger,

by Matthew Power,

River vagrants in the age of Wal-Mart

by Patrick Graham,

A road trip through the "new" Colombia

by Benjamin Moser,

Brasília at fifty

by Richard Rodriguez,

Jerusalem and the ecology of monotheism

by Bryan Mealer,

Searching for peace in Congo