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In 1969, Donald Crowhurst fooled the world into believing he sailed around the globe.

South Korea’s Lee Duck-hee is 18 years old and ranked 143rd in the world in a sport where hearing the ball is considered crucial.

How a group of English scholars are trying to bring emotion and engagement back into the study of literature.

Uncovering the dating habits of conspiracy theorists and the challenges they face.

After Castro’s long reign, three tales of exile and identity examine the complicated relation of American-born Cubans to their families’ homeland.

A family spends 10 weeks in Mexico and Argentina trying to learn Spanish.

To celebrate the release of the 2016 edition of Best American Travel Writing, here’s one of the essays reprinted in the anthology. In it, writer Freda Moon visits her father in Panama on the cusp of having her first child. People kept telling her “having children will change everything,” but her traveling parents taught her […]

An elegy for a much beloved volunteer chef and leader of the rest of the volunteers at a soup kitchen in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

How the president-elect is already mixing personal business with leading the United States.

In our continued mission to bring attention to America’s print literary magazines, here is a powerful essay from the University of Florida’s journal Subtropics, about the way homophobia and transphobia ran one couple out of their new apartment, and into disarray. Unfortunately, this story is as timely as ever.