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Publications

Roads & Kingdoms

The World Is Watching

The US election as witnessed by 25 reporters in 23 countries.

Roads & Kingdoms Nov 2012 40min Permalink

World Travel

From Lithuania, With Love

In February 2015, a cryptic email reached correspondent Ann Cooper from around the globe and across 28 years. It would pull her back into one of the most extraordinary reporting jobs in her career.

Ann Cooper Roads & Kingdoms Oct 2018 25min Permalink

Sports World

Afro-Europe in the World Cup

How the children of African immigrants came to control the destiny of teams in France and Belgium and what it says about European identity.

Laurent Dubois Roads & Kingdoms Jan 2014 15min Permalink

Travel

The Dog Thief Killings

An attempt to make sense of the dog meat industry in Vietnam, an unregulated maze of black market slaughterhouses, home restaurants, and thieves who are often murdered in the open when caught stealing the family pet.

Calvin Godfrey Roads & Kingdoms Feb 2016 15min Permalink

World

Superman of Havana

Searching for a ghost of Meyer Lansky’s Cuba, a sex-show star who quietly disappeared from the island and was later immortalized in The Godfather Part II.

Mitch Moxley Roads & Kingdoms Dec 2015 Permalink

World Food

The Second Most Famous Thing to Happen to Hiroshima

How a Guatemalan cook ended up the master of okonomiyaki.

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Excerpted from “Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan’s Food Culture”

Matt Goulding Roads & Kingdoms Oct 2015 10min Permalink

Science World

The Lonely End

Looking after the kodokushi – the elderly who die alone – of Japan.

Matthew Bremner Roads & Kingdoms Jun 2015 Permalink

The Root of All Things

Inside a school that trains students in an ancient rite: the taking of ayahuasca.

Nathan Thornburgh Roads & Kingdoms May 2015 Permalink

Business

Hostage Camp

Worried about being kidnapped while on a business trip? A man in Florida teaches courses on how to avoid it.

Mitch Moxley Roads & Kingdoms May 2015 Permalink

Arts

Australia’s Temple of Weird

An art museum in Tasmania is saving the local economy. It also offers an “eternity membership” which, for $75,000, will see your ashes displayed there once you’ve gone.

Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore Roads & Kingdoms Feb 2015 Permalink

A Mystery on the Mountain of Pain

When he disappeared four years ago on Turkey’s tallest mountain, Donald Mackenzie wasn’t trying to reach the summit. A true believer, Mackenzie was looking for Noah’s Ark.

Patrick Wrigley Roads & Kingdoms Nov 2014 Permalink

Sports

In Kenya, Running With Chinese Characteristics

The Chinese team heads to the home of elite running.

Jon Rosen Roads & Kingdoms May 2014 Permalink

Sports World

The Dream-Time of the World Cup

“Someone has sliced open soccer’s hourglass, and the sand has come pouring out on to the streets.”

Supriya Nair Roads & Kingdoms May 2014 Permalink

World Media

David and Daniel

Forty years after the dirty wars and Pinochet’s coup, photographer David Burnett journeys back to Chile to visit the subject of his most famous image.

Nathan Thornburgh Roads & Kingdoms Sep 2013 Permalink

Science Food

To Live, the Oyster Must Die

The fight to save a “delicious gold mine.”

Oliver Bullough Roads & Kingdoms Jul 2013 Permalink

Arts Food Travel

The Biggest Week in Bourbontown

An 8th-generation Louisvillian on the Kentucky Derby, bourbon and the history of his hometown.

Michael Lindenberger Roads & Kingdoms May 2013 15min Permalink