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That's true even if you're Paul Theroux, arguably the dean of all living travel writers and certainly one of the most accomplished. In his latest, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux retraces the steps he took in his first notable travel book, The Great Railway Bazaar, published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Theroux: Back on the Tracks | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

His exams as well were engaging and almost communal. Consider the one he gave for Constitutional Law III in the Fall 1997 semester. Students were told to act as attorneys in the make-believe state of Futura, advising the parents of a 23-year-old woman named Dolly, who had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Professor Obama's Class | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

Keep in mind that the government analysts and independent academics who try to piece together scenarios about North Korea's internal politics for a living are like astronomers looking at the moon through the wrong end of a telescope. Not because they're not smart enough to look through the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imagining North Korea After Kim | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

Schroeder is the author of a recent study about how little German youngsters today actually know about the GDR. He and his colleagues surveyed over 5,000 students aged between 15 and 17, and found that many, especially those actually living in areas that formed part of East Germany, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising a Glass to East Germany | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

Even in the best of times, food is scarce in Mutiusinazita. And these are not the best of times in Zimbabwe. The farmers who eke out a living planting drought-resistant crops like sorghum in the harsh, sandy soil this year found that even when plentiful rains ended six straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starvation Hovers over Zimbabwe | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

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