Adventures in Cambodian Bathrooms

Sanitary Habits the First World Should Implement

Cambodia Today

A Generation after the Killing Fields

Is Obesity a Disease?

Diagnostic Implications for Personal Responsibility

Last summer, the American Medical Association decided by an overwhelming majority that obesity is a disease. I wish I could share their certainty. Obesity is a personal and public…

Made in Detroit

Time to Replace ‘Tough’ with ‘Smart’

I love Detroit. I loved it as a child hearing my father’s automotive tales of his home city. I loved it through every era depicted in Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex, even the 1967 riots. I’ve loved flying in and out…

Chinese Noodle

The best noodles at the lowest prices, if you disregard the airfare

The Queen of Versailles for Our Times

The Bigger the Palace, the Emptier the Life

My definition of a good movie is — do I wake up thinking about it the next morning? According to this criterion, Queen of Versailles, which came out in 2012, is one…

Same Same But Different

A T-shirt of Shifting Perspective

The Wallet

Benito Salazar laid the last knife across the linen napkin. He brushed his forefinger against the heavy curlicue handle, ran his fingertip over the embossed letter ‘P’ and let it ride up the blunt, elegant edge. Silver knives don’t need to be sharp; they don’t encounter bristle. Benito pressed his thumb hard…