A writer moves to a new town and finds himself living the environmental story in the books he’d agreed to review.
Aaron Gilbreath
Busting Broncos and the Patriarchy
After nearly a century of being denied the opportunity, women are riding bucking broncos in American rodeo once again, and regaining the respect they deserve.
The Women Who Nod At Death And Say Let’s Go
For nearly a century, America’s major rodeos haven’t offered women’s bronc riding events. Daryl and Michelle McElroy, of The Texas Bronc Riders Association, are helping a group of talented riders change all that.
Into the Wild On an E-Scooter
What happens when you ride an e-scooter out of the city limits — until its battery dies?
On Virgil Avenue, Avocado Toast and Four Different Versions of the Same City
Thanks to Los Angeles’ enormous multi-culturalism, residents inhabit very different cities along this rapidly changing stretch of East Hollywood. Here food is both a symbol of peoples’ differences and their common ground.
I Rode an E-Scooter as Far From Civilization as Its Batteries Could Take Me
These contentious new rentals are both problematic additions to city life and promising alternatives to cars and public transit. One Bay Area resident wanted to see if they could help him escape the city into nature, and to explore the limits of the rental scooters’ abilities.
What If You Can’t Afford “A Room of One’s Own”?
For all the writers who rely on food stamps, day jobs, friends’ couches, and spouses to write their books with no guarantee of payment or publication, novelist Sandra Newman talks openly about her financial struggles. And she says: don’t feel ashamed. Create a room of your own anyway you can, even if it requires eating […]
Facebook’s Crisis Management Algorithm Runs on Outrage
The lucrative social media platform claims that it has improved the way it handles dangerous, harmful content, but its reliance on personal data harvesting has made it unwilling to effectively police its 2.7 billion users.
The Power of a Neighborhood’s Name
When Google Maps’ data renamed an African American neighborhood, it opened up residents to the looming forces of gentrification.
How Google’s Bad Data Wiped a Neighborhood off the Map
The renaming of Buffalo, New York’s Fruit Belt neighborhood reveals as much about gentrification as it does the flawed ways tech companies add locations to their maps.
