The Beautiful Incompleteness of Dusk By Krista Stevens Highlight “Darkness obscures and sunlight reveals, but dusk—that liminal moment in between—murmurs suggestions.”
The Mysterious Case of a Nameless Hiker By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight A friendly and charming hiker was known on the trail as “Mostly Harmless.” After his body was discovered in a tent in Florida, no one could figure out who he was.
Let Me In By Carolyn Wells Highlight “A young guy has received admission into two American universities, but still gets rejected. One boy from my queue is given the visa. His smile is so luminous it is like he’s going straight to heaven. “
Bonded by Grief, Pain, and Loss By Krista Stevens Highlight “Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?”
Roxie Laybourne: the World’s First Forensic Ornithologist By Krista Stevens Highlight “Having spent thousands of hours preparing thousands upon thousands of specimens, Laybourne had accumulated a library’s worth of knowledge about birds.”
‘These Were His Mountains, After All’: Remembering One’s Father While Cycling in the Swiss Alps By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight James Jung thought he rode the winding narrow roads of the Alps to memorialize his dad. He was wrong.
Who Gets a Vaccine? By Carolyn Wells Highlight We may not have a COVID-19 vaccine, but who will even get it when we do?
“The Final Five Percent” Wins 2020 Science in Society Journalism Award By Longreads Highlight Congratulations to Tim Requarth, whose Longreads essay has won the 2020 award in the Longform Narratives category.
Selling Fame By Carolyn Wells Highlight With the Cameo app, you can buy a video message from a celebrity — increasing in popularity since COVID-19, will this way of communicating become the new norm?
‘It’s An iPad, Not An usPad’: Douglas Rushkoff on Digital Isolation By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “There’s no Dropbox plan that will let us upload body and soul to the cloud. We are still here on the ground, with the same people and on the same planet we are being encouraged to leave behind.”
Death as a Work of Art By Krista Stevens Highlight “He tried to explain that the tomb was his final creative act, one that he would make with love, as he had made ceramics daily for the past forty-four years.”
The Seattle Police Shooting of Native Woodcarver John T. Williams, 10 Years Later By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “I don’t think you can talk about police accountability in our region without also talking about the murder of John T. Williams.”
‘The Sea and Sky Decide What They Will Allow’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “I’m working on a book about Arctic explorers, and that means swimming in a sea of sorrow.”
Until I Have Your Money By Carolyn Wells Highlight How multiple Canadian women entered a relationship with a man who was scamming them for money.
‘I Mostly Feel Like My Voice Matters’: A Portland Journalist on Protests, Police Violence, and Enduring Trauma By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight A reporter covering the protests in Portland reflects on fear and trauma, police violence, and her voice as a journalist.
‘Their Bodies Are Not Considered Their Own’: White Privilege in the Emergency Room By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight It’s against the law to examine someone without their consent — but one ER doctor’s colleagues do it anyway.
‘Who’s Going to Take Care of Me?’: When the Coronavirus Takes Both Parents By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight In the wake of their parents’ deaths, three siblings struggle to get through the day-to-day.
Let the Unexpected Expand the Landscape of the Possible By Michelle Weber Highlight “In general, I try to expect nothing and hope that everything is possible. I want the courage to need very little and demand a lot.”
Killer Mike Takes His Allies Where He Finds Them By Michelle Weber Highlight “You may start off with Professor X but Magneto got a fucking point.”
In Absentia By matthewembremner Feature A meditation on the nature of grief, at a time when the whole world seems to be grieving.
‘You Could Literally See Our Shit From Space’: The Broken Bowels of Beirut By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Beirut’s disintegrating sewage system and corrupt politics have put its residents in a shitty situation.
I Don’t Wear Pink By Carolyn Wells Highlight “I believe in reincarnation,” my 4-year-old announced, confidently. “And when I come back, I’m going to be a boy, and my name will be Shane.”
‘Breonna deserved better’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “She is more than an incident report that didn’t offer her dignity in death, to tell the truth of her murder.”
‘I Saw It on Instagram, I Had to Come’: The Desire to Document Ourselves in Nature By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Are Instagrammers and selfie culture destroying the outdoors? At Outside, Lisa Chase sets off to find out.
Pretty and Dumb? Tell It to the Avocado By Carolyn Wells Highlight New arrivals didn’t hand Natives the keys to the modern world — but took the tools that built its foundations.
Sold! On Going (Once!) to Auctioneer School By Krista Stevens Highlight “Five dollar now five gidibid five dollar now ten gidibid ten, ten now fifteen digibigit now fifteen now fifteen gidibid, now twenty?”
1600 Days in Solitary Confinement, and Counting By Krista Stevens Highlight “She continued to write me, though she presumably risked retribution: more time in solitary, more nutraloaf, additional restrictions.”
Chasing Spies From the Couch By Carolyn Wells Highlight Discover a website that solves crimes without its members ever leaving home.
A Beautiful and Brutal Truth By Michelle Weber Highlight “I only know that it is incredibly sad to admit to your children that you’ve been seeing videos of black men being killed since you were their age and that you haven’t been able to stop it.”
‘Shots fired. Male on ground, bleeding out.’ By Michelle Weber Highlight When “Who gets to go jogging without getting shot?” is an actual question a society has to ask, that society is fundamentally flawed.
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