Andrew Solomon | New Yorker | 29 August 2012 Powerful, moving piece on the history of rape, and children born to victims. "Can you tell me how to love my daughter more? I want to love her so much, and I try my best, but when I look at her I see what happened to me" Comments Irvin Studin | FT | 29 August 2012 Melting ice makes resource-rich Arctic lands accessible and exploitable. Five countries—the US, Russia, Canada, Norway and Denmark—have overlapping claims in the region. Prepare for trouble as they all start to exercise them Comments Christopher de Bellaigue | Atlantic | 25 August 2012 Bellaigue, an Englishman whose wife is Iranian, visits the Department of Alien Affairs in Tehran to apply for citizenship. He is told his case stands a good chance of success. What follows is a lesson in Iranian manners and culture Comments Jonathan Franzen | Condé Nast Traveler | 30 August 2012 One man, seven days, 33 elusive birds. "Part of the appeal of the birding game is that failure is inevitable, since nobody will ever see every species on the planet; and games in which success can be assured are not worth playing" Comments Orhan Pamuk | New City Reader | 28 August 2012 Science fiction, sort of. "As we sit on the balconies from which we once watched the moon glitter silver on the silken waters of the Bosphorus, we'll watch instead the blue smoke rising from the corpses we've had to burn in a hurry" Comments Patrick Hruby | ESPN | 24 August 2012 In 1970, Pirates baseball pitcher Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter while on LSD. He couldn't work out if the ball was a balloon or a golf ball, but it left a comet trail. And Richard Nixon was behind the plate, calling balls and strikes Comments | 
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