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• The Man Who Sailed His House

  by Michael Paterniti + Follow

  GQ | October 2011

  Two days after the Japanese tsunami, after the waves had left their destruction, as rescue workers searched the ruins, news came of an almost surreal survival: Miles out at sea, a man was found, alone, riding on nothing but the roof of his house. Michael Paterniti tells his astonishing tale.

• The Boy from Gitmo

  by Michael Paterniti + Follow

  GQ | February 2011

  Eight years ago, an Afghan kid was grabbed in a Kabul marketplace after a grenade attack on two American soldiers. He was interrogated, [REDACTED], and then taken to Guantánamo. But then, thanks ot the superhuman efforts of his defense team and one intense military lawyer, the government's case against him disintegrated. Now he's back in Afghanistan, free as a badly damaged bird, in a country he barely recognizes, wondering where you go when you grew up nowhere.

• The Flight of the Fluttering Swallows

  by Michael Paterniti + Follow

  New York Times Magazine | April 2003