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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.

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Harper's Magazine | October 2017
States of Decay

Winner, 2018 Western Writers of America Spur Award, Best Short Nonfiction

Someone told me I could find a reclaimed uranium mill in Tuba City, so I drove up from Flagstaff through the Arizona badlands.

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VQR | Spring 2017
The Useful Village

Finalist, 2018 National Magazine Award, Feature Writing
Citation, 2018 Ed Cunningham Award, Overseas Press Club
Winner, 2017 Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction

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.

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frieze Magazine | 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.

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Granta Magazine | Issue 140 | Online
Hallelujah! A Brief History of Bombing People

Bombing has always functioned as a weapon one class or race uses enthusiastically against another, and only rarely against its own – and then always accompanied by extravagant performances of remorse.

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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.

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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, usually on the outskirts of town. At the moment, someone tries to burn one of these improvised hostels to the ground every two to three days.

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VICE Magazine | Vol. 22 No. 11 | November 2015
The Ballad of Murder Eyez: In Syria with Germany's Refugee Rapper

In peacetime, Abdul Rahman Masri became one of Syria's most celebrated rappers. Now a refugee in Germany, he's determined to speak for his home nation's lost generation.

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