“The modern world has made us ill-equipped for the nuisances of past technologies, even as it has fuelled nostalgia for things that might transport us back to calmer times.”
Krista Stevens
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Curiosity Is No Solo Act
“It gains its real power when embedded in webs of relationship and shared meaning-making.”
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‘They’re Gonna Make Me Cry’: I Competed at a Speed Puzzling Championship
“You might think of puzzling as leisurely, but it’s now a sport. I entered a national competition and discovered a passionate community.”
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The Mansion, the Heiress, the Jewel Heist, and Me: A Bel-Air Fairytale
“Sixty-five years ago, my grandfather masterminded a robbery at a historic Los Angeles estate.”
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A New Jersey Teen Finds Treasure, and More, in Abandoned Storage Units
“Michael Haskell, 17, set out to make some money from his locker dives. He ended up learning about life.”
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Gillian Welch: This Land is Her Land
“You don’t need to shout it for the entire world, but you need to give hope to the people who need it, who you can speak to.”
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They Would Not Dream of Flowers: Translating Through the Tehran Blackout
“There, in that forced isolation, I sat translating a story about death. Meanwhile, the real thing operated just outside my window.”
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Field Notes from a Body
“As I watched I had felt a nameless churn in my gut, some tremor of feeling I couldn’t describe.”
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Lay It Down
“People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.”
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‘Their Power Feels Like Mine’: A Dog Sled Racer Says Goodbye to Her Pack
“After years of racing, I wanted to take my sled dogs back into the wilderness.”