The Cities in Me By Sorayya Khan Feature Novelist Sorayya Khan maps her path from Islamabad to Solvay.
His Life’s Set Prize: The Story of Polar Explorer Henry Worsley By Krista Stevens Highlight Sometimes, knowing when to go home is the most important decision you can make on a polar expedition.
Maternity Clothes for Women Who Hate Maternity Clothes By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A close, personal look at the evolution of the maternity clothing industry.
Translation is Messy, Which is Why Google Translate Will Never Be Very Good at It By Ben Huberman Highlight The popular online tool is great at rapid decoding. Extracting meaning? Not so much.
Unpacking Forty Years of Fandom For a Losing Team By Kevin Sampsell Feature Kevin Sampsell examines his love of football — and a team that’s never won a Super Bowl.
The Woman Who Helped Daniel Mendelsohn Become a Writer By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How a septuagenarian friend taught critic Daniel Mendelsohn to see the world as a writer.
Decisions, Decisions By Sari Botton Highlight Masha Gessen considers the nature of choice, for immigrants and trans people.
Once a Nerd, Always a Nerd: D&D 4Eva By Krista Stevens Highlight George Murray is “playing it forward” — sharing his love of Dungeons & Dragons by acting as dungeon master for families who want to learn to play.
The Money His Father Left Behind, and the Life it Would Start By Michelle Legro Commentary When Alexander Chee’s father died at 43, he left behind a trust that would set the course of his son’s life.
Hurricane Harvey Made Strange Bedfellows in Texas By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Did the white, far-right neo-Confederates who helped a small Texas Cambodian community rebuild after Hurricane Harvey have a political agenda?
Recovering My Fifth Sense By Kavita Das Feature Kavita Das recalls learning to self-advocate as a patient with a cleft palate — and as a child in a family full of doctors.
The Only Downside to Lower Infant-Mortality Rates? All Those Baby Books By Ben Huberman Highlight When you don’t need to worry about the big things, you can start obsessing over the small ones.
Breastfeeding On TV Peaked in 1976 and Went Downhill from There By Krista Stevens Highlight Where was breastfeeding first depicted on TV? If you guessed Buffy Saint-Marie on Sesame Street, you’d be right.
Silicon Valley’s Spin Master By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight After helping shape the public image of numerous tech companies, Margit Wennmachers is now helping shape the story of Silicon Valley itself.
The Handgun and the Haunted Range By Justin Quarry Feature Justin Quarry hunted for himself, and a connection to his late father, with the unlikely inheritance of a firearm.
You’re On Death Row, You’ve Asked to Die, But the State Won’t Kill You By Krista Stevens Highlight Despite their hard-stance bluster, death penalty states rarely impose the ultimate sentence, even if you’re the prisoner and you ask them to.
Art in the Age of Blockchain By Michelle Legro Commentary Why a rare Pepe meme is now easier to authenticate than a Leonardo.
The Dangers of Renting While Black in Gentrifying Cities By Sari Botton Highlight Joseph Williams reports on the increasing vulnerability of renters like himself.
A House of Refuge Marred by Violence By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The house at 808 East Lewis Street has helped the upwardly mobile reach for their dreams. It’s also seen great violence.
Jesus Is Everywhere in Port-au-Prince, but So Is Vodou By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Violent tensions have existed between Haiti’s Vodouisants and missionary Christians for centuries.
The Life of One of the South’s Greatest Folklorists By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Ernest Matthew Mickler wrote the best-selling White Trash Cookbook, but he was actually a skilled Southern folklorist, not a cook.
Reclaiming Our Rage By Sari Botton Highlight Here’s to more women embracing their anger instead of defaulting to sadness.
From One Friendship, Lessons on Life, Death, AIDS, and Childlessness By S. Kirk Walsh Feature S. Kirk Walsh reflects on her friendship with a gay man battling AIDS — how he taught her to grieve her own infertility, and live life more fully.
Why Do Millennials Love Horoscopes? (Hint: It’s Not Only Because They’re Free) By Ben Huberman Highlight A new audience finds comfort and meme-ready material in an old pseudoscience.
Diary of a Do-Gooder By Sara Eckel Feature After years of trying to distinguish herself, Sara Eckel considers the value of door-to-door canvassing, phone-banking, and other anonymous tasks of everyday activism.
Miles and Coltrane’s Milwaukee Gigs That Never Happened By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight They were scheduled to play Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1959. So why did the gigs never happen?
Reconnecting with Nature, and with Wi-Fi By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What does a naturalist do at the end of their career!? Retire in nature, of course.
To Your Door: The Human Cost of Food Delivery By Krista Stevens Highlight To earn money during a rough patch as a freelancer, Sam Riches worked as a bike courier, delivering food in Toronto during a six-month period. While the job lacked in pay, it offered one intriguing benefit: a crash course in human nature.
Possessed by Music By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Unraveling the mystery of the shirtless hippie who danced at countless rock shows in the UK during the last quarter of the 20th century.
Changing My Mind About Pig’s Feet and Cornrows By Dara Lurie Feature Dara Lurie reflects on what she discovered about her own racism while living at a state-run home for disadvantaged children.
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