Photo: Andrea Frazzetta
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The New York Times Magazine | February 3, 2019
Trillion-Dollar Nowhere In the remote steppes of Central Asia, China is establishing the next foothold in its trillion-dollar campaign to transform global infrastructure. [Read in The New York Times] [PDF] Forthcoming in Best American Travel Writing 2020 |
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Illustration: Danica Novgorodoff
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The Believer | October-November 2019
Weather Reports: Voices from Xinjiang An oral history of China's mass internment drive It was in some mountainous place. We drove out in a windowless van with a metal grate inside. I couldn’t see anything. Before, at the police station, they’d given me a medical exam. They’d taken a blood sample. I couldn’t understand what my sentence was—what I’d done wrong. [Read in The Believer] [PDF] [Læs på dansk] Winner, Jamal Khashoggi Award for Courageous Journalism Winner, The Reporting Award, NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute |
Photo: Andrea Frazzetta
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The New York Times Magazine | April 1, 2018
The Floating World Persecuted on land, members of Cambodia’s ethnic Vietnamese minority take shelter in improvised villages spread across the surface of the Mekong River’s waterways. [Read in The New York Times] [PDF] Anthologized in Best American Travel Writing 2019 |
Photo: Thomas Dworzak
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Virginia Quarterly Review | Spring 2019
Mountain of Tongues Can a nationalist movement from the internet save the world's most scattered people? [Read in VQR] [PDF] |
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Harper's Magazine | October 2017
States of Decay Someone told me I could find a reclaimed uranium mill in Tuba City, so I drove up from Flagstaff through the Arizona badlands. [Read in Harper's] [PDF] Winner, 2018 Western Writers of America, Best Short Nonfiction Notable Mention, Best American Travel Writing 2018 |
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Virginia Quarterly Review | Spring 2017
The Useful Village In the fall of 2015, Germany designated Sumte, population 102, as a sanctuary for nearly 800 refugees. What followed was a living experiment in the country’s principles. [Read in VQR] [PDF] [Read abridged version in The Guardian] Finalist, 2018 National Magazine Award, Feature Writing Citation, 2018 Ed Cunningham Award, Overseas Press Club Winner, 2017 Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction |
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New York Review of Books | NYR Daily
Pandemic Journal: Penang Wheelbarrows of durian had no buyers. [Read in NYRB] [PDF] |
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London Review of Books | Vol. 41 No. 18
Prisons in the Mountains In August 2018 I was in Zharkent, a market town in Kazakhstan near the Chinese border, reporting on the extradition trial of an asylum seeker named Sayragul Sauytbay. [Read in LRB] [PDF] |
Photo: Elaine Treharne
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The New Yorker | Online
Scattered Leaves In 2013, a Stanford medievalist accidentally discovered a secret world of art dealers who destroy artifacts to sell their disjecta membra. I decided to track one down. [Read in The New Yorker] |
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frieze | Issue 203 | May 2019
We'll Burn Your Pavilions Can Natascha Süder Happelmann succeed in doing away with national ‘representation’ altogether? [Read in frieze] [PDF] |
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Pacific Standard | January 30, 2019 | Online
The Last Uranium Prospector America's mid-century uranium boom changed the face of the West. Meet the man at the center of its secret afterlife. [Read in Pacific Standard] [PDF] |
Photo: Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Maureen Paley / Photo Solutions
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frieze | Issue 196 | June - August 2018
Hearing Things If we have learned anything from the age of for-profit surveillance and deep-state data, it is that someone out there is listening. [Read in frieze] [PDF] |
Photo: Ben Mauk
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Granta Magazine | Issue 137 | Online
A Land without Strangers All nations strive toward the superlative. Poland happens to be one of the most homogenous countries on earth. [Read in Granta] |
Photo: Ben Mauk
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London Review of Books | Vol. 38 No. 18
Diary (On an Arson Epidemic) As towns across Germany have accepted their federal allocation of asylum seekers, administrators have fashioned shelters out of disused factories, motels and parish houses. At the moment, someone tries to burn one of these improvised hostels to the ground every two to three days. [Read in LRB] [PDF] |
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The New Yorker | Online
Reporting on art crimes, mysteries, asylum rights, and more. [Read at The New Yorker] |