A Photographer Placed African Animals Against an Industrial Landscape—And the Result is Mesmerizing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Nick Brandt’s third book, This Empty World (Thames & Hudson) photographs animals as others might photograph people—shooting close, revealing portraits instead of more traditional wildlife images. His newest work in East Africa explores the relationship between animals and humans that increasingly find themselves in one…
The Award-Winning Author Who Wrote a Book From Prison, One Text at a Time
Behrouz BoochaniCourtesy of Amnesty International Kurdish Iranian writer Behrouz Boochani has spent nearly six years locked in a detention center on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, barred from entering Australia under the nation’s hardline immigration policies. But prison didn’t stop Boochani from writing a book, composed one WhatsApp text at a time to his…
Beyond Cigars and Vintage Cars: A New Photobook Shows You What Havana Really Looks Like Now
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Havana Youth, the debut photobook by Washington, DC–based photographer Greg Kahn, shines a light on the new Havana—feisty, sexy, alive, and evolving. It’s a stark contrast to the place stuck in time, as so many Americans have come to know Cuba. Kahn reveals a vibrant city…
My Father Warned Me Against Joining a Fraternity. I Didn’t Listen, But Maybe My Son Will.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A membership ritual at an unnamed Cal fraternity, from Andrew Moisey’s The American Fraternity On a Wednesday in mid-October, the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity near the University of California’s Berkeley campus looks all but deserted. The heavy wooden doors are shut and there’s not a “Fiji”…
This Journalist Is About To Be Very Unpopular With Some Mother Jones Readers
Marijuana policy is a charged subject: “I know I’m going to fail,” Berenson says.Craig Geller Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been a few years since Alex Berenson has “committed journalism,” as he like to say. As a New York Times reporter, Berenson did two tours covering the Iraq War,…
If You Think Congress Is Bad Now, You Should Hear About What Happened in 1838
Library of Congress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 1838, Rep. William Graves, a Kentucky Whig, shot and killed Rep. Jonathan Cilley, a Democrat from Maine, and became the only member of Congress to murder one of his colleagues. The events that led to the fatal duel were convoluted and—even…