The Silent Woman
FICTION / Winter 2024

The Silent Woman

By Paul Theroux ,  Illustration by Richard A. Chance
ESSAYS / Summer 2012

The Lady & The Generals

By Donovan Webster
Legend has it that the skull hanging in the hut behind the chief of Pansar’s house once belonged to a Koki warrior. Despite its unimpressive setting, the chief said that the skull still has the power to cause trouble for anyone who disrespects it. Photo by Elliott D. Woods.
REPORTING / Summer 2012

The Last Happy Skull

By Elliott D. Woods
Most villages within Karen state are only accessible through a network of jungle paths. Supplies are carried in by porters, many of them young women who carry up to fifty pounds up and down steep mountain routes. Medical supplies, as well as basic necessities, are smuggled in from Thailand then trekked to remote villages.
REPORTING / Summer 2012

The Black Zone

By Robert Young Pelton ,  Photography by Jason Florio
Children play ball on a bamboo raft along the Mandalay quai. Lashed together upriver, the makeshift rafts are floated down to the boomtown and used as construction scaffolding. Photo by Jason Motlagh.
REPORTING / Summer 2012

Irrawaddy Daze

By Jason Motlagh
REPORTING / Summer 2012

Dissident Thunder

By Delphine Schrank ,  Photography by Christopher Bartlett
EDITOR'S DESK / Summer 2012

Burma Exhales

By Donovan Webster
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Vestiges of the Socialist Time

By Julia Cooke

An Audience with Wirathu

By Sarah Khatry
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An Inside Look at Burma From VQR

By Jane Friedman
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