Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

Galápagos Islands, 8

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 56–57

Gardner, Kevin, 81

Gatsinzi, Jean-Pierre, 309

Gauguin, Paul, 299

Gaultier, Jean Paul, 168

gay marriage, 33, 34, 35

gay people, 33–36

atrocities against, 34–36, 98–99

author’s identity, 3, 10, 11, 33–34, 430, 485

protection of, 33

gay rights, 33–36, 99, 430–32, 437

Geers, Kendell, 146–47

Gehry, Frank, 287

gender identity, 33–34

Geneva Conventions, 418

Geng Jianyi, 114–15, 130, 361

genocide commemoratives, 305

George, Sister, 9

Gerasimov, Igor, 83–84

Getar (Balinese chief), 403–4

Ghana, 429–33

gay rights in, 431, 432

wedding ceremony in, 429

Ghanem, Shukri, 329–31, 341, 349, 353–54

Ghaznavi, Aziz, 279, 280, 282

Gilbert & George, 125–28, 140

“Girl from Ipanema, The” (song), 425

“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (song), 8

glaciers, melting, 259, 395–96

global warming, 302–3, 385, 392, 396

Gobi Desert, 237, 242–43

Godfather, The (film), 87

Goebbels, Joseph, 57

Goldblatt, David, 176

Goldfinger (film), 366

Golovin, Andrei L., 90–91, 92, 95

Goodhew, Steve, 299

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 45, 47, 66, 94, 177, 334

and glasnost, 50, 448

kidnapping of, 448

and perestroika, 93

resignation of, 59–60

Gordimer, Nadine, 148

Gottgens, Kate, 150

Graham, Dan, Cylinder Bisected by Plane, 290

Graham, Martha, 297

Grantseva, Arisha, 75

Great Barrier Reef, 301, 485

Grebenshchikov, Boris, 78, 79, 97

Greece, public protests in, 184

Greenland:

beauty of, 252

Danish colonization of, 249, 253

depression in, 249–58

gay identity in, 34

hard life in, 250

Inuit in, see Inuit peoples

language in, 249

taboo against talking about yourself in, 251

trauma as ever-present in, 254

update, 258–59

Guadalcanal, Battle of, 294

Guantánamo, 350

Guanyin (Buddhist goddess of mercy), 369

Guatamala City, La Limonada neighborhood of, 24–25

Gu Dexin, 113–14

Guest, Michael, 437

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 287

gun laws, 25

Guo Xi, 185

Early Spring, 186, 188, 192, 196, 200, 202

Guryanov, Georgi, 73, 78, 97

Gu Wenda, 129, 131–32, 139

Haas, Aleksei, 73–74, 75

Habich, John, see Solomon, John Habich

Habyarimana, Juvénal, 306

Hadrian, 215

Haftar, Khalifa, 357

Hakimian, Timur, 275–77

Hamas, 352

Han Chinese, 197, 199

Han Feng, 360–65

Hangzhou, China, food in, 114, 363–64

Hangzhou gardens, 378

Haring, Keith, 288

Harpers & Queen, 12, 45

Harun, Happy, 383

Harvey, Mark, 221–22

Hasan (sailing ship captain), 215

Hassani, Shamsia, 284

hate speech, 37

Havel, Václav, 337

Hawke, Leslie, 436, 437, 438

Hearn, Maxwell, 182

Hecht, David, 262, 264

Hecht, Hélène, 262–63, 264

Helms, Jesse, 192

Helmsley, Leona, 127

Henrique Cardoso, Fernando, 416

Henriques, Ricardo, 412

Heritage Expeditions, 386–95

Heritage Foundation, 343

Hermitage, St. Petersburg, 50, 57

Hitchcock, Alfred, 302

Hitler, Adolf, 57, 178, 460

Hlungwani, Jackson, 160, 171–72

Hobbes, Thomas, 323

Hobson, Andrew, 212, 214, 216

Holocaust, 1–2, 24, 26, 37, 306, 439

home, idea of, 15–16

homosexuality, see gay people; gay rights

Hong Kong, pro-democracy demonstrations in, 138–39

Honmura, Japan, 288, 290

hope, 15, 28–29, 140, 284, 407, 443

Houmaidi, Ahmed El, 8

Houston, Whitney, 112

Hsia I-fu, 210

Htein Lin, 473–75

A Show of Hand, 474–75

Htin Kyaw, 479

Huaisu, 201

Autobiographical Essay, 199

Huang Chih-yang, Maternity Room, 209

Huang Gongwang, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, 201

Huang Rui, 136

Huizong, emperor of China, Two Poems, 201

Human Rights Watch, 479

Hussein, Saddam, 335, 449

Ibrahim (sailing crew), 212, 216

Ibrahim, Ahmed, 326, 354

Idris, king of Libya, 322

Ilimanaq, Greenland, 252, 253, 256–58

immigration:

effects of, 26

restrictions on, 38–39

Inca ruins, Ecuador, 8–9

India:

British Raj in, 450

gay culture in, 34, 432

homosexual behavior criminalized in, 35

and Myanmar, 473

partition of (1947), 460

Indonesia, 397–405, 461

Indonesian Sign Language (ISL), 405

Indyk, Martin, 347

Ingapirca (“Inca wall”), 9

Inkomtrust, 83

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 347

International Criminal Court, 7, 357

internationalism, 40

International Monetary Fund (IMF), 348, 415, 416

Inuit peoples, 249

depression in, 250–58

hunters and fishermen, 250–51, 254

kiviak (fermented auks) eaten in, 251

large families of, 251

living in igloos, 251

mental illnesses in, 255

storytellers, 251, 253

suicide rate in, 250

three sage women, 253–58

Inujima Island, 291

Ionesco, Eugène, 192

Ipanema beach, 408, 427

Iran:

atrocities against gays in, 35

and nuclear program, 348

and terrorists, 346

Iraq:

atrocities against gays in, 34–35

chaos in, 29

refugees from, 39

war in, 27, 269

irony, 14, 54, 217, 246, 330, 355

Irony Tower, The: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost (Solomon), 14–15, 45

ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), 34–35

ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), 34, 357

Islam, 351–53

Sunni Mālikī (theological school), 331

Isle of Mull, 3

Israel, state of, 468

Istratsov, Vasily N., 96

Italy, public protests in, 184

IT Park, Taipei, 206–8

Ivanov, Viktor, 100

Ivleva, Viktoria, 59–60, 65–66

Jahid, Abdul Raqib, 274

Jaipur Literature Festival, 432