Category: Highlight

“Peering in, I see that last week’s eggs are now chicks. Tiny bright-yellow beaks, mouths opening and closing silently. This is the magic.”

The inside story of author Blake Bailey’s grooming of middle-school girls.

“My favorite moment came in the years when my ǧáǧṃ́p would nod to himself and make the official pronouncement: “It’s going to be a good year for salmon.” In that moment, we felt like little harbingers of hope.”

“When I moved to Billtown, I worried most about whether fracking tainted groundwater. By the time I left the area, my biggest concern was whether the liberty granted to citizens to lease their land, or to otherwise act in ways that limits others’ access to environmental goods, taints democracy.”

“Poetry has a way of forcing one into recognition, or transformation, or both if we’re lucky.”

“I have to wear all of these dolls, you see, so that Whiteness does not have to wear any.”

The algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps don’t know when your life changes course — and can keep up a stream of painful memories.

The story of a Somali family uprooted by war and separated by America’s broken refugee resettlement system — and the siblings who brought them back together.

How a journalist found her voice as her mother lost hers.

“David believes that the men who come to the farm are able to connect deeply with the animals and the natural world, in part because of the way that society has dismissed them.”

Learning lessons about love while living in a 1961 Artcraft mobile home in Moab, Utah.

Whose nervous system is stretched out in a glass case at Drexel University’s medical campus?

“Then, after he was done seeing patients for the day, he’d begin his other work. The work no one could find out about. The work that would destroy his life, along with hundreds of others.”

On the wonders and benefits of natural relationships and what happens when humans meddle with the delicate balance between species.

In a town under siege from Assad’s regime, a small group built a library from books rescued from the rubble.

At BuzzFeed News, Albert Samaha describes his effort to save his mom from QAnon.

“The UN gave up trying to count the war’s death toll in 2016, when it had already reached nearly half a million. More than 10m Syrians are refugees.”

Giving birth in the last year has meant a suffocatingly cloistered, rather than a communal, experience.

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

“The dogs knew the routine: settle down and relax so that the women could cut away their white tresses, shearing the dogs as closely as shearers do sheep.”

“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.”

The quest to save the American chestnut tree.

“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.”

“’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.'”

Jodie Foster and Sir Anthony Hopkins talk about “The Silence of the Lambs” for the movie’s 30th anniversary.

“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.”