“An encounter in the Christ-haunted South.”
Brendan Fitzgerald
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She Died at the San Diego Border. A Surveillance Camera Was in Plain Sight.
“In Southern California’s Otay Mountain Wilderness, the federal surveillance network seems unavoidable. But year after year, migrant deaths persist.”
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Orange Era
“First it was a fire, then it was a color, and before too long it became a regime unto itself.”
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Behind His Great Novels, an Unbearable Family Secret
“The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried.”
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The Work
“One year spent on the independent professional wrestling circuit in the Pacific Northwest, where the only thing that’s faked is the outcome of the match.”
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Hockey Dads and Hockey Sons
“Parenting is a practice. You learn from your mistakes and then repeat them anyway.”
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You Should’ve Said Something
“I had to do everything the jurors did—sit in every court session, examine each piece of evidence, look out from the jury box every day at a man accused of murder—but I wouldn’t participate in the deliberation unless two jurors dropped out.”
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Heaven’s Melodic Strains
“From a certain height, the problem becomes one of knowledge itself: Do you believe what you hear, or do you hear what you believe?”