Two months after his death, GQ remembers heavyweight titan Joe Frazier.

Cinema in a Milan department store from Abitare (December 2011).

Zinio Best of 2011: long-form journalism. The Kill Team, Rolling Stone (April 14, 2011). How U.S. Soldiers In Afghanistan Murdered Innocent Civilians And Mutilated Their Corpses — And How Their Officers Failed To Stop Them.

Monks gather from the frame to infinity on the Buddhist holy day, Magha Puja in the forthcoming issue of National Geographic (January 2012).

Ski season is officially open in Greenland. In May. This photo from the upcoming January 2012 issue of Outside shows Johnny Collinson plunging off a 35-foot headwall of glacial ice on the outskirts of Kulusuk, Greenland. Hard to not appreciate the extreme amount of calculation needed by both photographer and skier, in order to land this shot.

“Town & Country” rewards us with a spread of the best butchers, cheesemongers, winemakers and chocolatiers that will ship directly to our door. We’ll be giving thanks for a long time!

Physicist Alan Lightman talks about the Multiverse Theory in the latest issue of “Harper’s.” Ironically, this hypothesis (that leaves God out of the equation) also requires faith. As Lightman writes: “we must to believe in what we cannot prove.”

Ai Tominaga, for Vogue’s Japan December issue, inhabits a Kyoto that could have been a product of Yasujiro Ozu’s psyque. Of course, Miles Aldridge had to make it über-voluptuous…and rather disquieting…

Elephant Magazine, eight artists and the power of frugality.