Peru

The Beast in Me

By Allen Ginsberg,

From South American Journals, a collection of Ginsberg’s spiritual writing published last month by the University of Minnesota Press. This entry is the author’s account of an ayahuasca experience in…

The Bird Angle

By Nell Zink,

I slept for a good seven hours on the overnight flight from Spain to Peru, and while I slept I dreamed that I was leading American visitors around a park…

A Jagged Scrap of History

By Rachel Nolan,

Discussed in this essay: The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes, by Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna. W. W. Norton. 384 pages. $28.95. In 1988, Peruvians…

All Politics Is Local

By Daniel Alarcón,

To understand a place like Lurigancho, it’s best not to dwell on words like prison or inmate or cell, or on the images these terms generally connote. The 7,400 men…

After the fall

By Tom Littlewood, Translated by Barbara Dabrowska

The jungle is obscene

By Werner Herzog, Translated by Krishna Winston

The world economy continued its collapse. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 22 percent over eight days, Wall Street lost $2.4 trillion in market value, and Iceland went bankrupt.CNNBusiness WeekThe…

Rules of the game

By Harper’s Staff,

Weekly Review

By Miriam Markowitz, on October 2, 2007

The Cloaca Maxima, 1872 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hailed by his countrymen as the “Socrates of the Third Millennium” for “disarming other speakers through his sharp reasoning,” gave a speech…

The Beast in Me

The Bird Angle

A Jagged Scrap of History

Martyrdoms of Light

All Politics Is Local

The Pirate Economy

After the fall

The jungle is obscene

Weekly Review

Rules of the game

Weekly Review

Peru

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The Beast in Me

The Bird Angle

A Jagged Scrap of History

Martyrdoms of Light

All Politics Is Local

The Pirate Economy

After the fall

The jungle is obscene

Weekly Review

Rules of the game

Weekly Review