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A look inside the virtual realm
Ben Mauk
May 21CommentShare
A captain, a chieftain, a mutiny, a spicery, murder and suicide, colonizers and slaves, and an encounter from the "Age of Discovery"
Ben Mauk
Apr 27CommentShare
How we made The New Yorker's first-ever virtual-reality film
Ben Mauk
Apr 1CommentShare
A New Yorker story, resistance in the Cordillera, and more
Ben Mauk
Mar 2CommentShare
Recently, an essay of mine was the subject of discussion by a group of writers at Land Conflict Watch, a research and advocacy group in India. I have a…
Ben Mauk
Oct 7, 2020CommentShare
A pandemic diary
Ben Mauk
Mar 29, 2020CommentShare
One thing after another
Ben Mauk
Feb 8, 2020CommentShare
Welcome to The Fugitive World newsletter (formerly Widows and Orphans, a joke nobody got) by me, Berlin-based writer Ben Mauk. This newsletter used to …
Ben Mauk
Oct 26, 2019CommentShare
Like the chemical fouling of its aquifers, the enriching of its long-buried defense-related minerals, and the “surveillance”—but we should understand a…
Ben Mauk
Oct 4, 2019CommentShare
New work / the foreign dispatch I’m pleased to share with y’all the cover story for the latest issue of Virginia Quarterly Review. To report it, I spen…
Ben Mauk
Mar 13, 2019CommentShare
New Work / Turned Tables I spent most of 2018 working on two long reported stories that are finally coming into the world. The first dropped this week,…
Ben Mauk
Jan 31, 2019CommentShare
Marvel Journalism Bloated, expensive, dense with narrative cliché, worshipful of technology, ignorant of the history of the medium and dismissive of it…
Ben Mauk
Jan 7, 2019CommentShare
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