“When your great-grandparents grew up in Stalin’s terror-famine, your grandparents in the Holocaust, and your parents in a straddle between totalitarianism and democracy, you grew up confused about pain.”
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Corky Lee and the Work of Seeing
“Corky Lee’s images do something we do not usually imagine photographs can do. Rather than merely showing the visible, they are portraits of structural forces.”
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The Controversial King of Hardcore Climbing
“Nims Purja has become the first celebrity mountaineer of the social media age—and the most controversial figure in the global climbing community.”
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Roxane Gay in Antarctica: The Things We Do for Love
“Once upon a time, writer Roxane Gay and her wife, the illustrator Debbie Millman, set sail to Antarctica. Here, they each tell the tale—well, their version of it.”
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Tripping for the Planet: Psychedelics and Climate Activism
“With more states legalizing psychedelics, activists are interested in exploring their power.”
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An Ode to Kraft Dinner, Food of Troubled Times
“While the world has continued to change, Kraft’s product has remained the same, somehow evading inflation at one or two dollars per box.”
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The Murder of Moriah Wilson
“How did one of the best young bike racers in the country wind up dead in an Austin apartment?”
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‘This Place Belongs to You’
“Joshua Tree National Park is synonymous with the desert. Yet record numbers of guests threaten to overwhelm its beauty, wildlife, and small staff.”
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I Became a Pastor During the Pandemic
“But faith is like sandpaper on the soul: pain brought growth.”