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The Quietest Place in the Universe

by Kent Meyers,

Digging for dark matter in an abandoned mine

Beat Reporter

From a previously unpublished journal entry by Allen Ginsberg, dated February 18–19, 1965, and collected in The Essential Ginsberg, which will be published next month by Harper Perennial. In 1965, Ginsberg accepted…

Rotten Ice

by Gretel Ehrlich,

Traveling by dogsled in the melting Arctic

Vacay-47

From blog posts on Paladin of Jihad offering advice for Western Muslims preparing to migrate (or “make hijra”) to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State.

“Today Is Better Than Tomorrow”

by Benjamin Busch,

A Marine returns to a divided Iraq

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…

Nuclear Meltdown

From a report by the inspector general of the Air Force concerning allegations against Major General Michael J. Carey of professional misconduct during a trip to Russia last July. In…

Life as a Terrorist

by William T. Vollmann,

Uncovering my FBI file

A Different Kind of Father

by Jonathan Franzen,

By Jonathan Franzen, from a footnote to his translation of “Nestroy and Posterity,” a 1912 essay by the Austrian satirist, playwright, poet, aphorist, and critic Karl Kraus (1874–1936). In the…

The Longest Days

by Richard Burton,

From actor Richard Burton’s diary entries recording a trip with his wife Elizabeth Taylor to visit Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in preparation for The Battle of Sutjeska, a 1973…

Tut to the chase

by Anna Della Subin,