“Sandy West believed that embracing what we cannot understand is the pathway to enlightenment, and that time on her beloved Ossabaw was the best way to learn that lesson.”
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A Graveyard Shift with Britain’s Gen Z Undertakers
“Could apprentice undertakers solve youth unemployment?”
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A Tale of Two Trap Houses: Being Cuckooed Ruined My Friend’s Life—But Did It Then Help Save Him?
“Drug gangs have moved off Britain’s streets and into vulnerable people’s homes. Addicts like my friend are easy targets, but the reality can be more complicated than it seems.”
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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?”
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He Was One of the World’s Most Wanted Men. So He Bought a West African Country.
“How Jos Leijdekkers turned Sierra Leone into a drug-dealer’s paradise.”
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Impossibility is a Myth
“Sacha Jafri sold an artwork for $62 million dollars in 2021 at an auction. But the money never changed hands. What happened?”
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Annie Dillard and the Writing Life
“Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.”
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The Incredible Journey of a Migratory Shorebird
“Godwits make the longest non-stop migration in the bird world. That might be the least of their marvels. Can they survive a changing planet?”
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Where Cities and Oceans Meet
“In New Orleans, water is coming. What should we do with the time we have left?”