If humans can’t decide, “the future of life will be decided at random.”
2018
Posted inEditor's Pick
See No Evil
We’ve built supply chains that help us get the things we want fast and cheap, while also obscuring unpleasant truths about how that happens.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
Convenience Store Woman
If the convenience store and Japanese society are so similar, why can Keiko Furukura function in one and not the other?
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
A Girl’s Guide to Missiles
A professor returns to the California military base where she grew up to make sense of her family’s role developing weapons for the US government.
Posted inDesign, Highlight, History, Quotes, Science & Nature
I Want to Say One Word to You. Just One Word.
“Plastics.”
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
On Not Being Able to Read
In law school, they told me I wouldn’t be able to read anymore. That the pleasure of the text, like a lover in a non-law degree, would slowly grow opaque to me.
Posted inEditor's Pick
An Introduction to Death
In this essay from our Fine Lines series, raising a teenager of her own offers author A.M. Homes a glimpse into her mother’s experience of raising her.
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In a Town of 11 People, Mysterious Disappearance Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor
Fed to a crocodile? Baked into a meat pie? Everyone in Larrimah has a theory about what happened to Paddy Moriarty.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
An Introduction To Death
Raising a teenager of her own offers author A.M. Homes a glimpse into her mother’s experience of raising her.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
An Introduction To Death
Raising a teenager of her own offers author A.M. Homes a glimpse into her mother’s experience of raising her.