Stories by Subject
Culture, Profiles & Reportage
The Bike That Meant Everything
Chasing Amy Klobuchar: A Profile of the Most Popular US Senator
The Search for Sasquatch: Looking for Bigfoot in the north woods of Minnesota
Mike Klingensmith: The Star Tribune publisher says print is not dead
What It Feels Like…to Survive a Parachute Failure
Muslim unrest flares in Thailand
Thailand’s reality-based tourism: Tourists visit imprisoned foreigners
Pure Klingon: What to Do When You’re an Interstellar Villain Trapped in a Puny Human’s Body?
Aliens, Anomalies and Absurdity at Mt. Adams
Essays
Too much information: Stop your slide down the scree-slope of trivia
I Google Myself, Therefore I Am
Some Possibilities in a Half-Hearted Campaign to Rename the Middle West
Family on Safari: The family vacation minus one
On Tanzanian Time: Frank Bures meditates on the art of slowing down
Africa
Sense and sensitivity: Sometimes a translation only gets you half way
The Roads Between Us: A Journey Across Africa
Can You Hear Us Now? Why technology is Africa’s latest, greatest poverty fighter
Africa’s Publishing Renaisance
A Mind Dismembered: In search of the magical penis thieves
Things Come Together: A Journey through Literary Lagos
The Sound of Sunshine: How soukous saved my life
Recent and past headlines from the Arusha Times in Arusha, Tanzania
Travel
One for the road: How living abroad makes us creative
11 Things You Must Know About Canada
Frank Lloyd Wright’s love of nature shines in Wisc. cottage
Where the Sky Fell: Impact Craters
In South Dakota, the Lower Brule Sioux promote their culture without kitsch
Plato Was a Backpacker: Looking back to a fellow traveler and the seeds of wisdom
The World Over: A Profile of Rolf Potts
1,000 Places to Not go Before You Die
Writers
Criticism
A list that aims to shape our culture: Twenty tales by American writers under the age of 40
Alec Soth: The Loneliest Man in Minnesota?
The Curious Journey of V.S. Naipaul
The Death of the Idyll: The Wisdom of Tuscany and the last gasp of a genre
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Seth Peterson Cottage and the false promise of nature
Non-Places and the End of Travel
Sex, Drugs and Fish Salad: A journey to the center of Paul Theroux’s mind
