• Youn Sun Nah is a Seoul-based chanteuse who occasionally beatboxes. What Seoul Sounds Like
  • A ship in the Port of Djibouti. Photograph by Aurelio Candido. The View from the Hottest Country on Earth
  • Photo by Nikos Vatopoulos Orhan Pamuk’s Novel Concept
  • Photo by Tadas Kazakevicius Field Notes from a Photographer
  • "Myanmar," by Daniel Lombrana Gonzalez Weathering the Monsoon

Columns

"Consecrated," by Jeff LeFever

Reflective Moments

Photographer Jeff LeFever on one of his favorite pictures from Jerusalem: “I am overwhelmed by the visual vocabulary, which sings louder than my ears can take.”

Sau Paulo singer-songwriter Mallu Magalhaes. Photograph by Focka

What Sao Paulo Sounds Like

Music columnist Dave Wilezol surveys the laid-back, rambunctious, and constantly evolving music of southern Brazil.

Ricardo Trepa and Pilar Lopez de Ayala play Isaac and Angelica in "The Strange Case of Angelica."

Night Flight

Centenarian director Manoel de Oliviera’s “The Strange Case of Angelica” is a whimsical romance set in, and above, the vineyards of northern Portugal.

Kanyakumari in the morning. Photograph by Mehul Antani

Sunrise at the End of the World

Chris Watts takes part in a morning ritual in southern India: “I wound through the crowds to the end of the road, the last road in all of India, then abandoned my car to join the pilgrims.”

Photograph by Stephen Kiernan

The View from Sacre Cœur

Will Fleeson on what Paris looks like in the morning from the steps of the famous basilica: “Everyone climbs in Paris, from Balzac’s Rastignac to the migrants and joggers on this unremarkable morning. Everyone climbs.”

camel wrestling

Grappling for Camels

Mark Carrington photographs a camel wrestling tournament on the Aegean Sea: “Camel wrestling is more of a hobby than a lucrative sport,” says Carrington. “The owners of winning camels receive a trophy and a rug.”

Black truffles from the kitchen of Giulio Benuzzi.

Like So Many Dark Stones

Food writer Martha Miller interviews Giulio Benuzzi, an Italian truffle hunter, about the culinary delicacy and the dogs trained from birth to unearth them.