Quoted: The regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il appears to be rolling back reforms and putting succession plans on hold. Speculation has been swirling about whether the ailing Kim has anointed his youngest son as successor. But, as NPR's Louisa Lim reports — after a rare five-day visit to North Korea — Kim Jong Il now is back on center stage.

Quoted: A photographer who has made the most of inside access to document revolutionary change discusses what it is like to see history unfold, from the outside.

Quoted: Robert Frank’s disturbed and mournful song-of-the-road portrait of a new homeland is the subject of a 50th-anniversary exhibition now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Nice photo ...

I'd love to see this!

Moscow that is no more, a historical preservation nonprofit (in Russian, but amazing historical photos of buildings, etc.)

Quoted: lines of Greenpoint defined by their steel, brick and vinyl.

Quoted: Climbing a sand dune on the way home.
—Caption by Kiet Vo