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“As marriages go, ours is an infant. Soft-skulled and milk-breathed. We’ve been married for two years, together for five.”

To catch a serial killer.

“The Wall Street Journal recently used the headline ‘We All Need OCD Now’ for an article on COVID-19 … Finally, my debilitating mental illness has a timely hook!”

“Maybe walking into some marshes, and deciding at an undetermined future point to stop walking, was what was available to the Romantics, but I think we can do better.”

“In a few years’ time, however, she became a different kind of working woman: a musician by trade and one of the hardest working women in country music.”

Heather Lanier explores the pressure to perform happiness.

“’I think if the town survives, the newspaper will survive. I think we’re so intertwined. It’s not going to be one without the other. Our fates are going to be the same.'”

“Black waves bring animals to the town’s shore. Sticky corpses float on the oil.”

“Algorithms…don’t go on mutant rampages, they only sometimes reveal and amplify the cruddy human biases that underpin them.”

“Miguel Jr. and Jeannette are troubled that Miguel’s doctors didn’t present ECMO as an option, and then resisted the idea when the family suggested it.”

“I got angry, my mother cried, the addicts got high. That became a holiday theme for years to come.”

In an interview at GQ, Patricia Lockwood talks about the perils of being extremely online.

“Working in concert with the perfect breasts, the perfect bottom turns the body into the shape of an S. ‘It’s the classic hourglass figure,’ said Melissa. ‘That’s what you go after.'”

Children Of QAnon believers are desperately trying to deradicalize their parents.

The elusive bear is a thing of fascination, and writers have a lot to say about them.

“A series of small collapses is how they come to be radicalized.”

“When two people are on the same page, and they love each other, and they’re working towards something better, you can do a lot of good things.”

Fellow singer-songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield, who frequently toured with Earle, described his gift more simply: “He was able to explain trouble better than most.”

“Fear coursed through my veins. A horrible metallic taste, worse than bile, rose in my throat. The taste of terror.”

“The role of the cartographer isn’t just data analytics,” says Molly Burhans, an activist mapping the land assets of the Catholic Church. “It’s also storytelling.”

In an excerpt from her new book on fertility, feminism, and queer family-building, Jennifer Berney explores the possibilities of sperm banks.

Earl King’s “discs were among the rare ones where the words were as important as the music, where blues guitar was balanced with second-line piano, and where the B-sides were as strong as the A-sides.”

“In art and grief there are days you’re not proud of, days the emotions turn ugly, days the images don’t turn out the way you want. But that’s the human in us, and it belongs in the process. “

Greed, grift, and murder in the black market for gold.

“He covers his face with his hands. He doesn’t cry. He hasn’t really cried for eight years – since he started with testosterone injections.”

“Trevor spoke to Doug…“Physically, I’m doing fine,” he said. ‘My body’s just tired because we’ve been doing 20-mile days for eight days in a row.’ It was their final conversation.”

On injury, compensation, and living with pain.

“Plant-based eating has a long, radical history in Black American culture, preserved by institutions and individuals who have understood the power of food and nutrition in the fight against oppression,” writes Amirah Mercer in “A Homecoming.” The piece, published at Eater, explores Mercer’s path to veganism and the plant-based diets of the Black diaspora. While […]

Harvesting rice from the sea? This Spanish chef dreams big.

How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.