Hiroshima
The lives of six people who survived the atomic bomb.
World
Slaves of Isis: The Long Walk of the Yazidi Women
When Isis rounded up Yazidi women and girls in Iraq to use as slaves, the captives drew on their collective memory of past oppressions – and a powerful will to survive.
Sadiq Khan Takes On Brexit and Terror
A profile of London’s mayor.
Growing Up as an Untouchable
“My stories, my family’s stories, were not stories in India. They were just life.”
The Living and the Dead
In October, Iraqi forces set out to retake Mosul, one of Iraq’s largest cities and ISIS’s biggest stronghold in the country. It would take them nine months and cost thousands of lives.
How to Deal With North Korea
“There are no good options. But some are worse than others.”
A Kingdom for a Horse
“The most decorated athlete in all of Kazakhstan is a five-year-old Mongolian horse named Lazer.”
Journalism Under Putin
“The murder of Anna Politkovskaya was at once unbelievable and utterly expected.”
Somerdale to Skarbimierz
Following a Cadbury factory to Poland.
The Devil's Henchmen
What should be done with the bodies of ISIS fighters? While investigating in Mosul, the author uncovers a terrible crime.
How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico
The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border—and the U.S. drug operation that sparked it.
Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Send Cash
How Western Union does business in 2017.
Obama’s Secret Struggle to Punish Russia for Putin’s Election Assault
“I feel like we sort of choked.”
China's Mistress Dispellers
How an economic boom and deep gender inequality have created a new industry.
Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man
Three targets, two 17-year-old partners, and $15,000 in getaway cash: the story of the author’s first assassination for Ramón Arellano Félix’s Tijuana cartel.
From Russia With Blood
Fourteen people connected to resistance of Vladimir Putin have died on British soil. Every case has been closed, the deaths deemed of natural causes. American intelligence believes they were all assassinated by the Kremlin.
How America Lost the War on Drugs
An anatomy of a failure.
The Blind Faith of the One-Eyed Matador
A bullfighter’s comeback after a brutal goring.
Losing Gloria
After their mother was deported to Mexico, the Marin siblings faced an impossible choice: Stay or go.
Aleppo After the Fall
One morning in mid-December, a group of soldiers banged on the door of a house in eastern Aleppo. A male voice responded from inside: “Who are you?” A soldier answered: “We’re the Syrian Arab Army. It’s O.K., you can come out. They’re all gone.” The door opened. A middle-aged man appeared. He had a gaunt, distinguished face, but his clothes were threadbare and his teeth looked brown and rotted. At the soldiers’ encouragement, he stepped hesitantly forward into the street. He explained to them, a little apologetically, that he had not crossed his threshold in four and a half years.
Notes From An Emergency
A talk from the re:publica conference in Berlin:
The good part about naming a talk in 2017 ‘Notes from an Emergency’ is that there are so many directions to take it. The emergency I want to talk about is the rise of a vigorous ethnic nationalism in Europe and America. This nationalism makes skillful use of online tools, tools that we believed inherently promoted freedom, to advance an authoritarian agenda.
India’s Silicon Valley Is Dying of Thirst. Your City May Be Next.
Bangalore was once the icon of a globalized, high tech, utopian future. Now it’s a sign of global catastrophe.
Israel’s Invisible Filipino Work Force
To support their families back home, women from the Philippines have found work and a new way of life in Israel. But at what price?
The Secrets of the 80-Year-Old Chinese Runway Model
How did an obscure artist who survived the Cultural Revolution become a viral sensation and suddenly the surreal, sexy center of Fashion Week?
Excerpts from 'Bones in the Desert'
From the Translator’s Note:
Just over two weeks ago, on April 3, the renowned Mexican writer and investigative journalist Sergio González Rodríguez unexpectedly passed away from a heart attack at age 67. [His book] Bones in the Desert is a far-reaching investigation into the still-unsolved murders of hundreds of women and girls in the communities surrounding Mexico’s Ciudad Júarez, on the US border with El Paso, Texas. In the years since its publication in 2002, Bones in the Desert has left an indelible imprint on the modern literature of the Americas, both through its own merits and its foundational influence on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666. In crafting a fictionalized version of Ciudad Júarez, Bolaño collaborated directly with González Rodríguez, relying on him for substantial “technical help” in answering questions about the nature of the murders, and eventually including him as a character in the novel.
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The Twilight Zone
An excess of people and an excess of desert.
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No Longer a Girl
The hallmarks that would come to characterize the official narrative surrounding the serial murders were already being established.
