Saudi Arabia is spending lavishly to lure tourists. Are potential visitors willing to look past its long history of human rights abuses?
In the spring and summer of 2022, I spent three months capturing a contemporary portrait of Hungary’s capital, where my family lived for several years in the early 1990s.
After a storm disrupted plans for a 99-mile paddling trek, our time on the water took a more reflective turn.
The 85-mile journey through rough seas left some of us huddling in discomfort. But the scenery at the windswept islands was otherworldly.
Alone on a 10,000-mile road trip across the United States, I found an America cloaked in solitude — and a country on edge.
Ciudad Perdida, an ancient city that predates Machu Picchu by several hundred years, has become one of South America’s most rewarding adventure destinations — for those willing to endure a grueling multiday hike.
Mushrooms are perhaps the world’s greatest reminder that “in nature,” as Rachel Carson once wrote, “nothing exists alone.”
Rustic shelters called bothies — more than 100 of which are scattered throughout England, Wales and Scotland — are an indispensable, if little-known, element of British hill culture.
For the past 28 years, local children have flocked to the Bronx Conservatory of Music for very low-cost instruction in classical music. Will the school’s success be its undoing?
The monks of Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in South Carolina, are struggling to maintain age-old religious traditions in a rapidly evolving world.
At DEF CON, one of the world’s largest hacking conferences, new pressures are reshaping the community’s attitudes toward privacy and anonymity.
Switzerland’s Lauterbrunnen Valley is breathtaking in its majesty: a narrow glacial ravine crowded with waterfalls and enclosed by sheer cliff faces that rise more than 1,500 feet on either side, with hamlets and farming villages — both at the base of the valley and roosted high in the mountains above — lining its miles-long corridor. Few places on earth have the power to evoke sublimity in such a profound and inspiring way.
Forty-three years after the fall of Saigon and almost 13 years after Hurricane Katrina, many residents wonder if their long-resilient community is nearing another — quieter — inflection point.
The New York Times’s crossword editor, Will Shortz, discovered his interest in puzzles as a child. Now he counts at least one former president among his fans.
A 3,000-mile motorcycle trek across the northern United States provides evidence that, at least in sheer number of campaign signs, Trump supporters rule the roadways.
When Willa Kim died on December 23, 2016, her obituary in the New York Times hailed her achievements as a “theatrical costume designer,” highlighting her Tony Awards, her Emmy, the longevity of her artistic contributions. But to those of us at The Paris Review who came to know her in more recent years, Willa meant something else, too: she was one of the last living participants in the Review’s early days.
My grandmother had a stroke in her late sixties. Her illness — and her wheelchair — dramatically changed the course of her life.
