“What Oliver Sacks jotted down in the books he read.”
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Degrees of Separation
“Israel’s new international college programs offer American students an escape from campus activism while training them as state cheerleaders.”
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In Search of Banksy
“The British street artist’s identity has been debated, and closely guarded, for decades. A quest to solve the riddle took Reuters from a bombed-out Ukrainian village to London and downtown Manhattan—and uncovered much more than a name.”
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Where Duolingo Falls Down: How I Learned to Speak Welsh With My Mother
“Once violently defended from extinction, Welsh is still a part of daily life. By learning my family’s language, I hoped to join their conversation.”
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Jeff Mills Loves to Forget
“How techno’s most vaunted architect is still building sonic futures.”
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The Afterlife of a Stolen Bike
“22 bikes a day are stolen in Melbourne. I decided to buy one to return it to its rightful owner.”
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Beneath the Long White Cloud
“The search for the eighth wonder of the world.”
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What 100 Million Volts Do to the Body and Mind
“The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?”
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Transference in the Afternoon
“I felt I was looking at something remarkable: a real-time record of the encounter between a patient and a therapist. It was an encounter that started off well before veering profoundly off course.”