“The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried.”
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
“I began to do what I do — reading and writing and thinking about misogyny—because of my dismay at how girls and women are treated on campus, and at other college campuses across America.”
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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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Journalist Evan Gershkovich: My 491 Days as Putin’s Political Prisoner
“Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter in Russia, thought he was meeting a source. Instead he was arrested for spying.”
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I Lost Myself When I Lost Hong Kong
“If returning to America was like getting on a lifeboat, why did I feel like I was drowning?”
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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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The Babies Left Behind in America
“The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.”
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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.”