Skip to content

  • Love Thy Neighbor
    • About the Book
    • Order the Book
    • Excerpt One: The Journey Begins
    • Excerpt Two: A Checkpoint Arrest
    • Excerpt Three: Visiting the Camps
  • Crude World
    • About the Book
    • Order the Book
    • Q&A with Peter Maass
  • Projects
    • The Toppling
    • Reporting the Invasion of Iraq (Twitter)
    • Peter Handke (Twitter)
    • War Diaries
    • Blog Archive
  • About
    • Bio
    • Contact
    • Events
  • Articles
    • All Articles
    • Country/Region
      • Africa
      • Balkans
      • Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan
      • Korea
      • USA
    • Book Reviews
    • Film Criticism
    • Nobel Prize
    • Oil
    • Politics
    • Surveillance and Privacy
    • Trump
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Email

Category: Outside

A Jungle Eco-Battle

Outside Magazine
There are two sides to the story of the biggest environmental lawsuit ever, but a new book tells only one of them.
August 25, 2014
In the 1970s and 1980s, Texaco extracted more than a billion barrels of oil from the Ecuadorean rainforest but spilled an estimated ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on August 25, 2014November 29, 2020Categories Article, Oil, Outside

Slick

Outside Magazine
Alan Dershowitz, meet Steven Donziger. On behalf of 30,000 inhabitants of Ecuador’s remote Oriente region, this New York lawyer is putting it to Big Oil. But will his multi-billion-dollar lawsuit establish a global precedent—or is he just looking for a scapegoat ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on March 1, 2007November 29, 2020Categories Article, Oil, OutsideTags Peter Handke

The Race to Baghdad

Outside Magazine
This spring, a quarter of a million Americans took a trip. It was noisy, hot, and violent. Accommodations were poor. Some of them didn’t come back.
July 2003
I do not know the value of life. In every war zone that I find myself in, I routinely fail to establish ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on July 2, 2003November 29, 2020Categories Article, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Outside

Climbing Lessons from the School of Tomaz Humar

Outside Magazine
#1 You must merge with the energy of the mountain. #2 That nagging headache may be an avalanche that crushed your tent. #3 You will ascend the most harrowing face in the Himalayas, alone. #4 Go home, break both legs, and start over again.
June 2002
My chakras are ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on June 2, 2002November 29, 2020Categories Article, Outside

Another Day in the Drop Zone

Outside Magazine
They fly into lands of hunger and madness, dispensing food while warlords dispense terror from the barrel of a gun. They trade safety and comfort for the sharp edge of altruism, predictable careers for the daily bread of death and disease. They’re relief workers ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on July 2, 2000November 29, 2020Categories Africa, Article, Outside

I Am Elena. You Will Fly Now.

Outside Magazine
There, up there in the Arizona sky! It’s the cream of the once-mighty Soviet machine! Now pulling G’s at an airport near you.
July 1999
Elena Klimovich is tying me down. She tightens the straps around my hips, fastens the cords that pin my shoulders in ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on July 2, 1999November 29, 2020Categories Article, Outside

Articles

Africa
Balkans
Book Reviews
Film Criticism
Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan
Korea
Nobel Prize
Oil
Politics
Surveillance and Privacy
Trump
USA
War Diaries

By Publication

Intercept
New Republic
New York Review of Books
New York Times
New Yorker
Outside
ProPublica
Slate
The Atlantic
Washington Post
  • Love Thy Neighbor
    • About the Book
    • Order the Book
    • Excerpt One: The Journey Begins
    • Excerpt Two: A Checkpoint Arrest
    • Excerpt Three: Visiting the Camps
  • Crude World
    • About the Book
    • Order the Book
    • Q&A with Peter Maass
  • Projects
    • The Toppling
    • Reporting the Invasion of Iraq (Twitter)
    • Peter Handke (Twitter)
    • War Diaries
    • Blog Archive
  • About
    • Bio
    • Contact
    • Events
  • Articles
    • All Articles
    • Country/Region
      • Africa
      • Balkans
      • Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan
      • Korea
      • USA
    • Book Reviews
    • Film Criticism
    • Nobel Prize
    • Oil
    • Politics
    • Surveillance and Privacy
    • Trump
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Email
Copyright © Peter Maass. All rights reserved.