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The view from Guava Ground
1991 • 6,150 words • Reportage & Criticism
There were storms below us in the John Crow Mountains, where the Black River meets the Rio Grande. The plane was bucking in the high… more»
The sweetest poison
1 December 1985 • 661 words • Reportage & Criticism
Obesity, heart disease, tooth decay, slavery. When it comes to white powders and their attendant evils, cocaine can’t hold a candle to cane sugar. There’s… more»
The joy of locks
21 April 2000 • 2,596 words • Reportage & Criticism
In Colored People, a memoir of his youth in West Virginia in the 1950s, the writer and critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. devotes a central… more»
The godfather of gospel in London’s East End
14 July 1985 • 1,687 words • Reportage & Criticism
It’s Friday evening and the Reverend James Cleveland, leading light of gospel music… more»
The man who bought a rainforest
1988 • 5,781 words • Reportage & Criticism
We are making our way along a remote fjord in southern Chile, against the wind and tide. There are three of us in the boat:… more»
From polka to polyrhythm
6 July 2001 • 2,615 words • Reportage & Criticism
In 1922, in a dispatch from France, the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier noted a new fashion there for the music of his home country. “There… more»
A visit to the Panopticon
January 1996 • 1,673 words • City of Words
On New Year’s Day we took the Comet to the Isle of Youth. While we were still far off – in a stretch of mangroves… more»
The whales of Nunavut
22 February 1999 • 1,107 words • City of Words
A jetliner on a transpolar night flight develops a mechanical fault. Forced to land in a snowstorm on an ice-bound landing strip, it touches down… more»
The clave and the timbales
26 October 1998 • 934 words • City of Words
The sun sets on the kora and the xylophone—and rises on the clave and the timbales. The taste of world music aficionados has switched from… more»
Brit Crits Nix Car Wreck Sex Flick
1996 • 1,219 words • City of Words
The mad traffic of automobiles, the inefficacy of censors and the venality of show business converge in the fuss over Crash, David Cronenberg’s film of… more»
