“Science provides me with a vocabulary of illness, confirming what my body already knows: that it will never be the same.”
Seyward Darby
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The Child Care Industry Was Collapsing. Mrs. Jackie Bet Everything on an Impossible Dream to Save It.
“Jackie Thomas was $29,134 in debt and in trouble with state regulators. She hadn’t slept in days. If a judge ruled against her, she’d fail the mothers who could only keep their jobs thanks to the 24-hour child care she offered.”
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Two Assholes Lost in the Woods: An Oral History of ‘Pine Barrens’
“Twenty years after it aired, David Chase and Co. look back on the one of the wildest, boldest, funniest episodes of ‘The Sopranos’ ever made.”
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‘Can You Imagine How That Felt?’: Blake Bailey’s Predations, As Told By His Students
The inside story of author Blake Bailey’s grooming of middle-school girls.
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Invisible Kid
“Sentenced to life in prison at 16, Adolfo Davis hoped a Supreme Court ruling would give him a chance at a new beginning. But nothing about freedom turned out as he expected.”
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Mr. Bailey’s Class
“Before he was Philip Roth’s biographer, Blake Bailey taught the eighth grade. His students say he made them feel special. They worshipped him. They trusted him. He used it all against them.”
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Herman and the Serpent
“How a retired diplomat in Wellington brought a notorious murderer to justice.”
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Black on the Prairies
A multimedia, interactive exploration of Black life in on the prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
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‘Floyd was my man. But George Floyd is a movement.’
“The private grief of Courteney Ross, George Floyd’s girlfriend.”
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The Failures Before the Fires
42 fires and 61 deaths, in a city that knew about fire safety issues and didn’t fix them.