A celebrated novelist and journalist, Lawrence Osborne is the author of six travel narratives and a recent novel, The Forgiven. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal Magazine, the New Yorker, Forbes, Harper's, and several other publications. He lives in New York City and Bangkok.

In Search of a Bar in Islamabad
While traveling on assignment to Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, Lawrence Osborne seeks out one of the city's more risky evening activities—drinking—and discovers that in this religious and dangerous city of one…
- story: Lawrence Osborne
- illustration: Peregrine Honig