Who Wants to Shoot an Elephant?
Along for one of the last elephant hunts in Botswana, where foreigners spend $60,000 for the privilege of killing an animal.
Longform Best of 2014
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Travel
The Sea of Crises
A sumo wrestling tournament. A failed coup ending in seppuku. A search for a forgotten man. How the author’s trip to Japan became a journey through oblivion.
Diary: Burning Man
A turn in the orgy dome, half a hit of German-engineered acid, and more adventures on the Playa.
The Istanbul Derby
A trip to Turkey for a soccer game between bitter rivals.
Sana'a
A rare vacation in the Yemeni capital, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.
