COVID-19: Dispatches from Sing Sing By Krista Stevens Highlight “Sing Sing was going into quarantine. Our movement was limited. No gym. Hospital and commissary runs limited to groups of ten. Staggered seating in the mess hall.”
What Does a Post-Apocalyptic Gated Community Look Like? By Ben Huberman Highlight For wealthy Americans, a dystopian future includes underground golfing in South Dakota.
‘Grief is the Wake of Love’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “Dreams, like Scheherazade’s stories, keep us alive, keep our ships from crashing too soon, keep our candles in those ocean vessel’s rooms aglow.”
The Stories of Notre Dame, as Told by Timber and Limestone By Krista Stevens Highlight ‘“Notre Dame will come out of this experience enriched,” she says. “And so will we.”’
All that Was Innocent and Violent: Girlhood in Post-Revolution Iran By Naz Riahi Feature Naz Riahi recalls her vibrant childhood in a suburb of Tehran, and considers how the harsh realities imposed by the still new Islamic Republic seeped into her family’s life.
Bowen Yang is Simply Awesome By Krista Stevens Highlight “My dad every now and then will toe that line and be like, You could try women!” says Bowen, laughing. “And I’m like…Don’t. It’s almost an endearing kind of homophobia, if such a thing exists.”
Teaching Writing and Breaking Rules By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Rules can ruin the kind of exciting language that makes literature rewarding, but some rules also enhance writing. It’s challenging to find the middle ground.
Moving Literary Life Off the Page By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight For one poet, conducting a satisfying literary life off-page required living life outside the classroom.
Coronavirus Could End Trump’s Chance at Reelection, But Things Are Too Terrifying Right Now To Feel Hopeful By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One Republican offers a ray of light during these dark times: That this pandemic will end the Trump presidency.
An Unenviable Week of Firsts in Seattle Under COVID-19 By Krista Stevens Highlight “We didn’t know it yet, but we were living in a kind of laboratory of the country’s future. We were the first.”
The Zoo That Divided a Town By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Exotic critters have gnawed the frail threads that once bound a small Ontario community.
Did the United States Booby-Trap a Vital Soviet Gas Pipeline? By Krista Stevens Highlight “Weiss…a subtle, under-the-radar bureaucrat who fought his country’s adversaries with red tape and a headful of contrarian ideas. I understood him as a man whose entire life was secrets. “
When Time Costs Too Much By Carolyn Wells Highlight If you are the family breadwinner, how do you calculate the value of time with your children?
What Do We Do With Feelings Now That They Don’t Matter Anymore? By Sarah Miller Feature Sarah Miller thinks about climate change and other current horrors, and what it’s like just being sad forever.
Life Advice from Jazz Genius Sonny Rollins By Krista Stevens Highlight “Live your life now in a positive way. Help people if you can. Don’t hurt people. That works perfectly for me, man.”
The Consequences of Surviving By Carolyn Wells Highlight “As medicine advances, we have more survivors. But those survivors carry trauma to their graves.”
A Design Aesthetic That Lets You Succeed In a World That Doesn’t Care If You Fail By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Every era bears its aesthetic burden. This is ours.
Mowing the Lawn to Map the Ocean Floor, One Long, Slow Pass at a Time By Krista Stevens Highlight “The thinking is that fleets of tireless, automated, uncrewed vehicles could one day criss-cross our waters, making maps where humans can’t or won’t.”
Some Inland California History Begins with an Orange By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Even as California’s Inland Empire loses its citrus industry to urbanization, urbanites can still keep social ties by planting fruit trees in their yards.
Behind One of the Sketchiest Men, a Sketchy Woman By Sari Botton Highlight Moe Tkacik reveals the web of shadiness lurking behind WeWork’s facade.
Is the Weekly Shop Good For You? By Carolyn Wells Highlight Trudging to the grocery store to laden up with milk and toilet roll may seem like a chore, but does it improve your health?
The Man Who Lived in a Hole in Hampstead Heath By Krista Stevens Highlight “He knew there were a lot of people just like him, irregularly employed, regulars in pubs, the owners of passports and phones and all the right charger leads, only with nowhere stable to live.”
“Follow Along,” or How to Learn Flamenco Guitar with a Tocaora By Krista Stevens Highlight “Before he died a few years later, my father told me there were almost no tocaoras — female flamenco guitarists — in the world. If I kept practicing, he said, I could be one of the first.”
How I Got My Shrink Back By Susan Shapiro Feature An entanglement with her shrink-stalking protege teaches Susan Shapiro something about forgiveness.
In Hot Pursuit of STS-50, High Seas Scofflaw By Krista Stevens Highlight What’s in the hold, captain? Oh nothing, just tonnes upon tonnes of illegal Chilean bass — nothing to see here!
The People We Love to Hate on Social Media By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What the people we envy online can tell us about ourselves.
Detective Fitbit By Carolyn Wells Highlight Can Fitbit data help to convict the alleged perpetrator of a brutal murder?
How a Mom Penetrated the Pen to Hack the Warden’s Computer By Krista Stevens Highlight Rita Strand, age 58, posed as a health inspector and got unrestricted access to South Dakota prison.
The Hate Is Coming From Inside the House By Michelle Weber Highlight The claws of diet culture dig in early, and they dig in deep.
Margery Kempe: Patron Saint of Writing Moms By Krista Stevens Highlight “Having children has simultaneously fried my brain and made it sharper and more focused.”
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