Balancing the Books By Sari Botton Highlight The Paris Review launches a monthly column to shine light on women writers from the past who have been under-recognized.
Lettuce Try to Grow Dwarf Tomatoes Next By Krista Stevens Highlight When we all eventually move to Mars, we’re going to need to know how to grow our own veggies. NASA’s working on the science of farming in space.
Can This Tech Company’s Digital Border Wall Secure it More Government Defense Contracts? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Looking inside the new tech company who is building a cost-effective digital wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Why Brands Should Stay out of Body Politics By Krista Stevens Highlight When it comes to telling how women how they should feel about their bodies, brands should remain silent.
Series Exhumes Out-of-Print Books by Black Authors By Danielle Jackson Highlight “The Blackist,” a column for Catapult’s magazine, introduces audiences to out-of-print novels written by black authors.
A Woman’s Search for Salvation, Love, and Family By Danielle Jackson Highlight A woman searches for love and belonging inside and outside of the Christian church.
Russian River Roulette By Michelle Weber Highlight Even when you’re already bracing for a negative response, no one expects an attack golfer.
Maybe We’ll Finally Figure It All Out in Third Life By Michelle Weber Highlight What’s going on in Second Life? The same things that happen when any neighborhood is abandoned.
How Amazon Exploits Chinese Workers to Crank Out Its Products By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, exploits Chinese workers to manufacture Kindles and smart speakers.
The Myth of the Stanford Prison Experiment By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Despite its unscientific methods, the Stanford Prison Experiment continues to influence the way we understand human behavior.
TPS Reports All Day Long By Katie Kosma Highlight Have technological advances left many of us with jobs devoid of meaning? Are we bullshit?
Wrestling With My Father By Brian Gresko Feature Brian Gresko considers the lingering consequences when the only touches between father and son are abusive ones.
When the Answers Wash Out with the Tide By Michelle Weber Highlight Police eventually figured out who killed Jaimee Mendez, but not how or why.
‘I Love What Human Voices Do Together’: An Interview with Neko Case By Will Hermes Feature Neko Case talks about collaboration, women warriors, women inventors, men with excellent falsettos, losing her home to a fire, and feeling lucky in ‘a great sea of loss.’
Could South Africa’s Drought Help Deconstruct the Divisions of Apartheid? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Cape Town’s drought has turned the once green city brown, but can it help unite the rich and poor and black and white?
A New Yorker, and a Sick Person By Longreads Feature In an excerpt from her memoir, Porochista Khakpour recalls fashioning herself after her artist aunt’s example.
Has India’s Booming IT Industry Finally Plateaued? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight India’s once lucrative IT sector now fears it’s glory years are ending as one of its biggest companie starts downsizing.
In Just 40 Hours, You Too Can Be an Expert By Michelle Weber Highlight Pamela Colloff took the same 40-hour course that is the sum total of the training many blood spatter experts claim… and it did not inspire confidence in the reliability of this particular forensic “science.”
Life Under (Water) Pressure By Michelle Weber Highlight Welcome to the dangerous, cramped world of the saturation diver, and the extraordinary strangeness of working 500 feet under the sea.
The Mr. Memory of Jazz By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Jazz radio host Phil Schaap uses his deep knowledge of mid-century jazz to keep the music alive.
Small-Town New Hampshire’s Battle with Bears and Liberty By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Grafton, New Hampshire has a bear problem, but how much of the problem is the result of human behavior?
Cheese and Macaroni Do Not a Mac and Cheese Make By Ben Huberman Highlight On the complex history and triumphant ubiquity of America’s most comforting staple.
Exodus in the Ozarks By Pam Mandel Feature At a theater in Branson, Missouri, Pam Mandel finds an unexpected plot twist in a very familiar story.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reckons with Fame By Danielle Jackson Highlight In a New Yorker profile, the MacArthur ‘genius’ considers her legacy.
‘Unfettered Glamour’: The Legendary Career of AndrĂ© Leon Talley By Danielle Jackson Highlight The highs and lows of AndrĂ© Leon Talley’s important, trailblazing career are traced in a new documentary about his life.
England Is a Giant Russian Money Washing Machine By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Russian money is parked in English real estate and other assets, but is it too late to purge its influence on Britain?
What Is the Hot Commodity, Exactly? By Michelle Weber Highlight You say seaweed, I say fish, let’s call the whole harvest off. Welcome to the most interesting article on legal tensions around seaweed harvesting in Maine you’ll read all week, and maybe ever.
The Hole in My Soul By Sara Eckel Feature Sara Eckel surprised her agnostic parents by becoming a born-again Christian at age 10. It was the first of many attempts to believe.
Across the World in 80 Days By Katie Kosma Highlight People are building rockets to propel themselves miles high so they can look down and confirm the disk-shaped flatness of our planet.
How to Ruin the Scripps Spelling Bee in Four Letters: E-S-P-N By Krista Stevens Highlight At the Scripps Spelling Bee, no one asks for whom the bell tolls. It’s glaringly, if painfully obvious.
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