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April 24, 2006

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The Ecstatic Truth

Daniel Zalewski

Werner Herzog’s quest.

"The moment anything on this film becomes purely aesthetic, I will stop it" — Werner Herzog on keeping jungle films honest

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The Snakehead

Patrick Radden Keefe

A REPORTER AT LARGE about Sister Ping and her human smuggling business. Several hours before dawn on June 6, 1993, two police officers came upon a …

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