Diet Is a Four-Letter Word By Krista Stevens Highlight Taffy Brodesser-Akner explores America’s history of obsession with thinness and her own struggles with her body.
Making Your Own Appointment to Die By Krista Stevens Highlight When someone you love has a fatal disease and chooses to die on their own terms, how do you cope?
Avast, Ye Mateys: There’s Insurance Fraud Ahead By Michelle Weber Highlight Was the Brillante Virtuoso attacked by pirates, or was it an inside job?
Why Fiction Haunts Us: Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen on His Ghosts By Krista Stevens Highlight Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about how ghosts and authors of fiction share a similar role in today’s culture.
The Great Alt-Right Pile-On of Tommy Curry By Michelle Weber Highlight “The goal, however, was the same as ever: fear. And it worked.”
To Be an Instagram-Ready Restaurant, Don’t Forget Your Selfie-Optimized Lamps By Ben Huberman Highlight Sleek-kitschy idiosyncrasy is all the rage.
Square Dancing At Nudist Summer Camp: Do-Si-D’Oh My! By Krista Stevens Highlight “It is easy to learn quickly when the risk of failure is grabbing a stranger’s penis.”
Have Gin, Will Travel By Krista Stevens Highlight Alexander Chee got sick the first time he drank gin. We’re glad he persevered.
‘Oakland Used to Be More Funky’: Where Have All the Artists Gone? By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight The staff at Laney Tower take a close look at the past, present, and future of Oakland’s artistic community.
Alice Driver on the Passion to Create and the Fear of Failure By Krista Stevens Highlight It took Alice Driver’s dad 2 1/2 years and 4,000 bricks to build his fourth wood-fired kiln. But would it fire properly?
Open Burning: A Banned Practice That’s Poisoning America By Krista Stevens Highlight Millions of pounds of toxic chemicals are poisoning people and the environment today in practice called “open burning” which was banned over 30 years ago.
An Expat by Any Other Name (Is Sometimes a Digital Nomad) By Ben Huberman Highlight When your Ubud neighborhood becomes a luxury tech bubble.
Poems: Protection From Isolation and Solitary Confinement By Krista Stevens Highlight What we all need now? Poetry, sweet poetry.
There’s No Equality In Baseball By Michelle Weber Highlight The young women of Girls Travel Baseball are mocked by opposing players, but they keep on playing.
Alexander Chee on Rediscovering Art for Pleasure in Greece By Krista Stevens Highlight The author sketches his way around Sifnos, capturing memories Moleskine notebook.
Roger Federer Isn’t Stopping Any Time Soon By Mike Dang Highlight Federer is the oldest man to win a Wimbledon singles title in the Open Era, and he doesn’t appear to be slowing down.
The Re-Kazakhification of Kazakhstan, On Horseback By Michelle Weber Highlight After years of Soviet control, the country looks to the cultural foundations of its nomadic past.
The Kids Are Not Alright: How Opioids are Destroying American Families By Krista Stevens Highlight As mom and dad nod out and overdose, the under-funded American foster care system is struggling to mind the children.
#FrenchGirlGoals: Artful Dishevelment and Animal Fats By Michelle Weber Highlight There’s big money for fashion and beauty companies in encouraging the women of the world to emulate the French Girl.
You’re Not Really Going to Move to Toronto By Michelle Weber Highlight You can probably stop browsing those real estate listings.
Guy Fieri’s Introspective Turn By Ben Huberman Highlight Ten years and three presidents, later, Guy Fieri’s populist persona has proven extremely resilient.
How Do You Name a Not-Quite-Fat Ken Doll? By Ben Huberman Highlight When a company decides to “celebrate diversity,” who’s the party for?
Immoral or Merciful? Canadian Doctors Divided on Medically Assisted Death By Krista Stevens Highlight Some doctors are struggling with allowing Canadians to die on their own terms.
Roxane Gay on the Final Frontier: Acceptance for Every Female Body By Krista Stevens Highlight Roxane Gay on her new memoir and on gaining acceptance for the female body in every shape and size.
Two-And-a-Half Minutes to Midnight: Our Fear of Nukes and How We Got Here By Elizabeth King Feature Our fear of nuclear conflict has more to do with Iron Man and Godzilla than it does Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.
Race in America Has Never Been an Either-Or Proposition By Michelle Weber Highlight Zadie Smith examines the racially-charged work of Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ and Dana Schutz’s ‘Emmett Till’
Highway Robbery: How the Port Trucking Industry is Rigged Against Drivers By Krista Stevens Highlight On how port truckers are the victims of heinous labor practices.
The American Dental Refugees of Mexico’s ‘Molar City’ By Michelle Legro Highlight Los Algodones is a popular destination for people in search of cheap dental care — many of whom voted for Trump.
Death Doulas to the Rescue? By Krista Stevens Highlight With the onset of death doulas, no one need die alone.
Diane Arbus: Describing the Loneliness that Shames Us By Krista Stevens Highlight Hilton Als on photographer Diane Arbus’ uncanny ability to capture the humanity of her marginalized subjects.
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