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Ben Mauk

​Ben Mauk lives in Berlin, where he directs the Berlin Writers’ Workshop. ​He writes for the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker and Harper’s, among other publications. He is writing a book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 157 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 157 padlock

The Steepest Places: In the Cordillera Central

Ben Mauk

‘In the mountains, however, Duterte seemed to have met his match.’

Ben Mauk meets the mountains of Luzon.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 157
Essays & Memoir | Issue 157

Hallelujah! A Brief History of Bombing People

Ben Mauk

Ben Mauk on the West’s longstanding love of missiles, drones, bombs and nukes.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 157
Essays & Memoir | Issue 157

A Land Without Strangers

Ben Mauk

Ben Mauk on nationalism and xenophobia in Poland.

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