Dimiter Kenarov

Biography

Dimiter Kenarov is a freelance journalist based in Istanbul, Turkey, and a contributing editor at the Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has appeared in Esquire, Outside, The Nation, The International Herald Tribune, and Boston Review, and was recently anthologized in the Best American Travel Writing series.

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REPORTING / Winter 2015

The Theater Tsar

By Dimiter Kenarov ,  Photography by Boryana Katsarova

Gogol’s play sounds strangely familiar, as if art and life were indistinguishable from each other. Two performances seem to be taking place in parallel: one inside the theater and another one in the streets outside, where soldiers in green...
REPORTING / Spring 2013

Unlikely Dissidents

By Dimiter Kenarov

Shale gas has unlocked what may be the biggest fossil-fuel rush of the early twenty-first century. It has been called a path to energy independence and industrial revival, less polluting than coal. No other energy topic has garnered so much...
REPORTING / Winter 2012

Mountains of Gold

By Dimiter Kenarov ,  Photography by Nadia Shira Cohen

The Rosia Montana mine is one of the oldest mines in the world, but now it threatens to destroy the ancient village it long ago built.
REPORTING

The End of the Séance

By Dimiter Kenarov

How an ’80s-era quack, who claimed he could cure illness through hypnosis, helps explain the Russian psyche.

REPORTING

The Moscow Protests, Part 2

By Dimiter Kenarov

Our Russian writer and the photographer Maisie Crow rejoin the crowd of more than one hundred thousand in Moscow.

REPORTING

A Jail Cell in Belarus

By Dimiter Kenarov

Notes from the author’s imprisonment in Belarus.

ESSAYS / Spring 2010

Unapproachable Light

By Dimiter Kenarov

As recently as 2005, Camp Bondsteel was purported to be a secret interrogation site for the American military. So why does predominantly Muslim Kosovo love it so much?

REPORTING

Orpheus’s Error

By Dimiter Kenarov

“Think like the dead” should be the unofficial motto of the Iraq War. To blend in, American soldiers are feigning death.

PROFILES

The Life and Opinions of Captain Donald Lipscomb

By Dimiter Kenarov

A Vietnamese American Army Captain’s view of the war in Iraq.

REPORTING

City of Trash

By Dimiter Kenarov

After the elections, Baghdad is awash in political posters.