Paul Polanski: from the book “To UNHCR With Love,” Polanski’s extraordinary transcriptions, set into verse, of Roma people’s talk in ex-Yugoslavia after the war

Carrie Haber's Roma studies lead her to an encounter with Fidel Castro's daughter in a Prague dive

Diana J. Wynne writes from Cyberia, which is Everywhere

Dean Lenane on special assignment to European toilets

Senegalese Writer: on Bush’s visit to Senegal

Gretchen McCullough: Notes from Syria, arabesques of unassailable bureaucracy

Dan Lewandowski: Exodus 11 explains for the eleventh time why everybody had to get out of Egypt

Ric Reichert blows the lid on a famous Death Valley Kitchen

Josh Gilman, our peripathetic vagabond, send Field Notes from Bangkok

Tom Bradley in China, on the trail of the Cultural Revolution

Korea by Ian Christopher Hooper, featuring “the monk who never sleeps”

Lucy Griffin Appert: On Meeting Glamorous Men in New Orleans

Jack Collom: reporting from Boulder, Colorado on that hot spot, the Naropa Institute