Women We Read This Week
Sara Corbett’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being the Boarder Queen” in Outside Never mind the mixed-up byline (the online version credits Michael Llewellyn). This…
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Sweat Ride through the Smog Swamp
I met him when I was trying to get to work. I was walking down the street in the Old Quarter, dodging traffic in my too-baggy work pants…
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A Year of Vela
Today, September 6, 2012, we at Vela celebrate the first anniversary of the magazine.There is much to come, but before we get to all of…
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Girls, Girls, Girl
The girls looked bored. They slouched in plastic chairs, picked at their nails, crossed and uncrossed their toothpick legs.
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On the Rails in Phnom Penh
We called him Eat Pray Paul. Because there were two Pauls and they were more or less indistinguishable — both red-faced old dudes who’d been kicking around Cambodia…
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Confessions of the Hamam Non-Sisterhood
She flung the plastic bucket in my supine direction. The warm water leapt out, arched through the steaming black room and landed with a slap across my face.
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Could Have Stayed On The Highway
Interstate 5 stretched out before us like a flat black stain on a dingy beige carpet. Desert, industrial orchards, slaughterhouses, gas stations…
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Barang Goes To A Wedding
The music started before dawn. I knew this only because the holes in the corrugated tin roof revealed swaths of night.
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The Angelo Who Isn’t There
Street 182, just past dusk, and I’m moving through air as thick as swamp water.
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A Trip To The Castle
The tin fence is half-collapsed, and the smoke that billows out of the shack might be meat or it might be trash—or by the smell, both.
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Cities Like Boys
Wait, wait—you’re moving to Cambodia?!” I nod. “I was just out there for a few months earlier this year. And now I’m headed back.”
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