Matthew Power

Matthew Power, a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine died Monday while on assignment for Men’s Journal in Uganda. Harper’s has granted free access to Matt’s collected works here. If you haven’t read “Mississippi Drift” about his time floating down the Mississippi with a group of anarchists, I’d start there.

From the New York Times obituary:

“He was always searching for the human truth beneath the sorry facts,” said Roger Hodge, who edited many of Mr. Power’s articles for Harper’s and is now the editor of The Oxford American. “He wanted to live it — live what these people were living.”

[Photo via GQ]