From Cairo to Cairo

By Kieran Nelson

Persian Postcards

By Fred A. Reed

In an age when visual images have become infinitely manipulable, and have thus forfeited their credibility, words alone can convey the multifaceted, fleeting, elastic yet intractable truth of memory and events. Persian Postcards, the fruit of ten years of travel to the Islamic ... Read more

Pigeon Wars of Damascus, The

By Marius Kociejowski

Stand the Sacred Tree

By John Weier

The genesis of Stand the Sacred Tree was in Weier's previous memoir Marshwalker (page 32)--it grew out of the questions he explored and the opportunities that were represented. Weier traveled widely--Syria, Iceland, Holland, Denmark, and Canada--and wondered at what--if anything--connects ... Read more