Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

Shwedagon Pagoda in, 449–50

history of, 459, 480

structures demolished in, 450

student uprisings (1988) in, 444, 456, 465, 470, 473, 475, 476

threat of guerrilla warfare in, 468–69

tourism in, 450, 478–79

update, 480–82

My Life as a Red Guard (documentary film), 124

Naidoo, Riason, 175

Naito, Rei, 291

Namibia, national museum in, 144

NASCO (National Supply Corporation), 338, 342

National Cancer Institute, 343

National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), 162

National Gallery, Kabul, 270

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Circa 1492 exhibition, 184

National Gallery of South Africa, 143–45, 146, 175

National Palace Museum, Taipei, 187–96, 198–99, 202–3, 209

artworks reattributed by, 189

balance needed against, 198

Imperial Collection in, 187–89, 192, 203

and Met exhibit, 182–83, 185, 189–91, 193, 195, 196

preview exhibition of, 189–90

renovations in, 203

restricted list of, 189, 190–91, 194–95

seventieth anniversary of, 185–86

Nation of Islam, 340

Nauman, Bruce, 100 Live and Die, 289

Navalny, Alexei, 102

Nay Phone Latt, 447, 452–53, 461, 471–72, 473, 480

Nazism, 230, 306

Ndayambaje, Jean Damascène, 309

Ndou brothers (Goldwin and Owen), 167–68

Sport for a Gentleman, 168

Nemtsov, Boris, 102

New Analysts Group, Beijing, 113

New Europe College, Bucharest, 440–41

Ne Win, 451

New Republic, 17

New Wave, 109

New Yorker, 321, 435

New York Times, 205, 269, 429

New York Times Magazine, 59, 71, 103, 139, 141, 181

Ngabonziza, Jean-de-Dieu, 316

Ngarda (Balinese man), 403

Ngcukana, Fitzroy, 164

Nhlengethwa, Sam, 145–46, 156

Niazi, Mohammed Yasin, 274

Nicolaisen, Flemming, 23

Nigeria, gay people stoned to death in, 35

Night Wolves (biker gang), 99

Ni Haifeng, 106, 117, 121, 124, 129

Nikolayev, Leonid, 57

Nimrod, 385–96

Nishizawa, Ryue, 291

Niyonsenga, Marcelline, 314–15

Nkosi, Charles, 152, 155

Nkotsi, Tony, 173

Noize MC, 98

Noonday Demon, The: An Atlas of Depression (Solomon), 32, 36, 211, 229, 249, 261, 435, 436–37

Norman, Jessye, 361

North, Oliver (“Ollie”), 177

Northern Song dynasty, 378

Norway, menu in, 21

Novikov, Timur, 78, 81, 97

Novogratz, Jacqueline, 319–20

nowhere to go, 1–2, 16, 24, 481

always someplace to go, 37

escape fantasies, 3, 4, 33

refugees, 25, 39–42, 233–35

Ntobe, Joyce (pseud.), 147

Ntshangase, Alson, The AIDS Doctors, 153

Nyirahabimana, Alphonsine, 310

Offenbacher, Mrs., 4

Olsen, Astrid, 258

Olshvang, Anton, 60

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 188

Oprah (TV), 341

Orpheus Island, 485–86

Ostrakovsky, Ivan, 99–100

Ouyang Jianghe, 140

Ovcharenko, Vladimir, 58

Ovchinnikova, Masha, 82–83

OvidiuRo (NGO), 436, 440

Pachugin, Yaroslav, 83

Paes, Eduardo, 416

Pahlavi, Shah Mohammad Reza, 337

Pakistan:

intelligence service (ISI), 271

and Muslim guerrillas, 460

nuclear weapons of, 347

women wearing hijab in, 26

Palestine, 352

Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), 164

Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie bombing), 322, 326, 346, 347, 348

Pan Dehai, 106

paper, origins of, 128

paranoia, 255

Paris:

Garnier (theatre) in, 422

Sots Art: Political Art from Russia exhibit, 58

Paris terrorist attacks (November 2015), 39

Parks, Rosa, 340

Pascoe, Lynn, 207

Pater, Walter, 29

Patricof, Alan, 329

Pavlov, MC, 75, 79–80, 97

Payne, Malcolm, 144, 145, 146, 150, 159

peace, 41

Pearl, Daniel, 38

Pearsall, Cornelia, 22

Peilman, Kirsten, 252

Pe Myint, 449

PEN:

and censorship, 36–37

Myanmar office of, 443

PEN American Center, author as president of, 36–37, 443

Penkin, Sergei, 81

Perm, Russia, Welcome to Sochi exhibit in, 57

Peterson, Peter G., 329

Petlyura, 75–77, 97

Pew Research Trust, 427

Phaly Nuon, 229, 231–35

death of, 235

photography, invention of, 185

phytoplankton, 396

Picasso, Pablo, 185

Pierneef, Henk, 144

Pinda (Balinese man), 401

Pindu, Nym, 403

Plutser-Sarno, Alex, 57

“polar hysteria,” 255

Polo, Marco, 366

Pol Pot, 230, 231

Popov, Sergey, 53

Powell, Ivor, 164, 173

Prague, cultural dissonance in, 22

Prigov, Dima, 38

Professor Khromov, 386–87, 390

propaganda, 37

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 55

Pussy Riot (band), 57, 100

Putin, Vladimir, 15, 57–58, 71, 97, 99–100, 102, 437

Pu Yi (the last emperor), 188, 376

Qaddafi, Muammar, 7, 29, 321–23, 326–27, 329, 332–34, 335, 349, 351–52, 354

bedouin roots of, 323, 341, 343

and Circle of Fire, 354–56

and corruption, 343

death of, 356, 449

on elections, 336–37

Green Book, 322, 330, 332–33

hegemony of, 345

Jamahiriya system of, 332–33, 334, 337, 342

legacy of, 357

and Nation of Islam, 340

possibility of meeting with, 339–41

Third Universal Theory of, 332

and unrest, 345–48, 352–53

Qaddafi, Saif al-Islam, 7, 323–26, 327, 329, 334, 337, 349, 354

imprisonment of, 357

Qaddafi Foundation of, 323, 335

and unrest, 352–53

Qianlong Emperor, 374–84

death of, 377

idealism of, 384

meditation of, 382

poems written by, 377, 382

reign of, 377

Qianlong Garden of Retirement, China, 373–84

design of, 378–80, 382

Juanqinzhai in, 373, 374, 376, 377, 379–84

restoration of, 383–84

Qing dynasty, 128, 187, 203, 375–77