The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.by Tim Cahill
It had been said that no outsider would ever see the legendary salt mines of Mali and live to describe them; ever slip into the Caravan of White Gold, evade the slaughtering bandits, suffer the killing storms, and lay eyes upon the nightmarish landscape of 1,000 pits gouged by hand from the Saharan plain…
by Tim Cahill
The country that gave us Genghis Khan, the Attilla the Hun Show, and possibly the first Americans is rolling out the welcome mat.
by Tim Cahill
Rolling Stone’s 1979 story piecing together what happened after the Jonestown Massacre.
by Tim Cahill
A great wash of humanity carried us onto the corrugated metal deck of the barge, and eventually, engines thrumming, the Flueve Congo moved majestically out into the current and began floating down the Ubangi…
by Tim Cahill
This was ground zero for the largest man-made environmental disaster in history. It was a perfect vision of hell.
