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Making Sense of Life In the Death Zone

by Krista Stevens October 19, 2016October 19, 2022

At The Walrus, read an excerpt from The Escapist: Cheating Death on the World’s Highest Mountain, by Gabriel Filippi with Brett Popplewell.

Nonfiction, Quotes

Butches, Femmes, and Mobsters: The Three Lives of Malvina Schwartz

by Krista Stevens October 12, 2016October 19, 2022

At Hazlitt, read Hugh Ryan on the oral history of drag king Malvina Schwartz, a.k.a. Buddy Kent, a.k.a. Bubbles Kent.

Editor's Pick, Nonfiction, Quotes

Butches, Femmes, and Mobsters: The Three Lives of Malvina Schwartz

by Krista Stevens October 12, 2016October 19, 2022

At Hazlitt, read Hugh Ryan on the oral history of drag king Malvina Schwartz, a.k.a. Buddy Kent, a.k.a. Bubbles Kent.

Nonfiction, Quotes

Speak, Memory: Can Artificial Intelligence Ease Grief?

by Krista Stevens October 6, 2016October 19, 2022

When Roman Mazurenko died, his friend Eugenia Kuyda created a digital monument to him: an artificially intelligent bot that could “speak” as Roman using thousands of lines of texts sent to friends and family.

Editor's Pick, Nonfiction, Quotes

Speak, Memory: Can Artificial Intelligence Ease Grief?

by Krista Stevens October 6, 2016October 19, 2022

Nonfiction, Quotes

Chronicling Mexico City Nights: The Grave Shift’s Violence

by Krista Stevens October 5, 2016October 19, 2022

When you work the night shift for too long, the murders start to link up with one another, blending cause and effect in a centrifugal force that gnaws away at the city. The veteran reporters start to see this; the man gunned down one night is related to an ongoing gang dispute, which originates in […]