City of Solitude
This story weaves together evocative testimony of life under and after lockdown from residents of Wuhan, the first epicenter of the covid-19 pandemic.
Traversing the Darien Gap, the Longest Walk to America
An extraordinary story following a group of Cameroonian and Pakistani migrants heading for the United States on an arduous trek across one of the most dangerous places on earth, the Darien Gap, bordering Colombia and Panama.
The Mysterious Lawyer X
She was a leading figure in the Australian legal scene, known for her effectiveness, as well as unusually close social relationships with some of the clients she defended in criminal matters. It turns out that there was a far bigger issue lying beneath the surface.
The Launch
A look behind the scenes at the science and business planning involved in the 20 year quest to make the perfect apple.
The Green Gang
The story of India’s Green Gang, “a gang of hundreds — no, thousands — of women, almost all of them poor and low-caste”. Their mission – to take on ” anyone who dared to hurt a woman, including violent in-laws, philandering husbands, domestic abusers, land-grabbers, bootleggers, molesters, and rapists.”
The Faithful
The story of two men who set out to convert their Catholic megachurch in Medellin, Colombia to Orthodox Judaism.
To Catch a Counterfeiter
A representative from Pinkerton, a long-established American detective agency, takes the author on a tour of one of China’s counterfeiting hotspots.
Urban Dreams
A look at the plan to build an Indian state capital from scratch, the fifth such project and perhaps the most ambitious yet.
The Living Disappeared
An account of the babies born in torture centres during Argentina’s military dictatorship, and the search to find them, led by a group of grandmothers.
The Deepest Dig
The ocean bed is little understood and mapped by humans, and has been referred to as “the next best thing to another planet” from an astrobiological point of view. We don’t really know it at all, and yet we have figured out how to mine it.