June 2004
Clive Thompson explores the economics of virtual worlds; Paul Webster asks if Canada will be complicit in US efforts to weaponize space; Larry Krotz reports on a man filing suit against his native Iran for torture; Bruce Grierson recounts the legacy of his grandfather, a Presbyterian evangelist stationed in early twentieth-century Korea…
Censorship: The Next Generation
Miles away from the front lines of the Culture War, a longer-running and far more blatant encroachment on free expression by the Bush Administration was barely being noticed
Read MoreStopping the Presses
Reporter Precious Shumba in the makeshift newsroom of The Daily News, in February, 2004 / Photograph by Marian Botsford Fraser harare—It is disconcerting to visit a newspaper with no newsroom, …
Read MoreGained in Translation
Communication Breakdown soft sculptures by Tania Sanhueza with the Hoboyard Toy Co. / Photograph by Natalie Matutschovsky Most novelists who are fortunate enough to have had their novels translated into …
Read MoreThe Bookbinder
In Edwige Birlouez’s atelier in Semur-en-Auxois, her students, employing techniques from the Middle Ages, dismantle and resew signatures, reconstruct spines, and recover rotting pages; after passing through some thirty stages, …
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Non-Profit Mercenaries
london—I knew right away he was the man I had arranged to meet. It was the way he stood – ramrod straight – making his open-necked polo shirt and khaki …
Read MoreThe Beauty in Beasts
There are endless stories in a little piece of fabric
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