“Under the Lens” Gretchen Fernholz It’s a picture-perfect day in small-town Russia, and we’re going to spend it inside a stuffy museum. Ahead of me, my friends Almeda and Taya walk sin...Read More
“Sudoku” Graham Earley “I have no patience. I tell all my grandchildren to have patience, but really I do not have it myself.” Aaji dropped her pencil and began putting t...Read More
Uncharted Territory Emma Rossby The doctor rings the bell and we are buzzed up. Our footsteps reverberate off the dark blue walls as I shadow her up the entryway stairs. She stops at the first ...Read More
“Shedding Skin” Elizabeth Smith The sun rises above the rooftop terraces of Rabat, crisscrossed with webs of clothing clines. It’s our final day in Morocco, which means my ...Read More
“Wear Black” Dylan Culp “I think we have a good shot tonight.” Jacob stood ahead of us, looking at the other people in line, most of whom were young but older than us. Next to him, a c...Read More
“The Underground Hungary” David Lembersky “Don’t worry about the migrants – they only stop here on their way from Africa.” Attila was wrong, of course, but I had no idea wha...Read More
“Finance” David Do I met Finance on my first night out in Shanghai with seven other students from Carleton. We were sitting at the outdoor patio of a pub, and seated two tables next to us ...Read More
“The Hall of Names” Claire Rostov Over 3.5 million tourists visit Jerusalem every year. They come on spiritual pilgrimages, with church groups, on birthright. They come to the Church of th...Read More
“The Cathedral and the Qur’an School” Carrie Hanson I step off the bus with my fellow classmates and look up at walls of the Medina. Fes. The oldest city in Morocco, dating back to the 9...Read More
“Mountains out of Morsels” Austin Showen Around 9 p.m. on one weekday night in April, an unsuspecting Parisian walking down the Rue Saint-Joseph may have felt something land on his head. I...Read More
