“Blaire Fleming was a little-known college player. Then she suddenly became a symbol of injustice — to both sides of the controversy.”
Brendan Fitzgerald
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Nights and Days
“Maybe anybody who can become transparent to experience and articulate it truthfully and without distortion is a poet. Even if the facts are scary or horrible, what comes out, if true, might be beautiful.”
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How Creativity Became the Reigning Value of Our Time
“In a new book, Samuel Franklin excavates the surprisingly recent history of an idea, an ideal, and an ideology.”
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How My Dad Reconciled His God and His Gay Son
“When I came out nearly 16 years later, it shook his faith and fractured his church. But it never separated us. I wanted to
understand how. So I read his journals.”
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Did Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Really Tell Me I Gave My Son Cancer?
“The likely next secretary of Health and Human Services scared me with a cruel and misleading statement—and that’s the danger he poses to parents everywhere.”
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Polaroid Death Machine
“I reached for the same tools that my grandmother used, the old Polaroid cameras I’d taken from what was once her home, which I cleaned and cared for, then carried out into our new, time-broken world, panicked and unsure of what I’d see.”
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The Free-Living Bureaucrat
“All over the world, tens of thousands of times a year, some doctor was trying to improve on some unsatisfying treatment for some deadly affliction. And no one was recording what had worked and what had not.”
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The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack
“One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.”
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The Machine in the Garden
“After decades of unchecked hazardous waste pollution, a Florida hamlet fights the developers eager to build homes there anyway.”
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A Nation Deranged
“Matt Eich’s photobook series, ‘The Invisible Yoke,’ is an exorcism of the country’s demons.”