Meet the 14-Year-Old Dancer Who Invented The Renegade By Mark Armstrong Highlight A ninth grader’s creation explodes on TikTok, without acknowledgement or credit.
Finding Answers about Life and Love in the Mountain Death Zone By Krista Stevens Highlight “There’s no reflective surfaces when you’re climbing. You’re just who you are.”
Black America Unwittingly Provided the Soundtrack to Its Own Displacement By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight American music may be Black music, but it has now become the music of displacement.
How the US Spied on Allies and Adversaries Alike By Krista Stevens Highlight The “United States and its allies exploited other nations’ gullibility for years, taking their money and stealing their secrets.”
When Your Father Recruits You for a Life of Crime By Krista Stevens Highlight Archie Moretti believed he could steal and get away with it. It’d just take a little nepotism.
What If This Is It: Will Huey Lewis Sing Again? By Krista Stevens Highlight ‘The music went away slowly and then all at once. So what if it never comes back? “I haven’t allowed myself to go there yet,” Huey says, worry in his voice.’
The Most Common Airbnb Scams: A Roundup By Krista Stevens Highlight “…these emails paint a portrait of a platform whose creators are fundamentally unable to track what goes on within it, and point to easily exploitable loopholes that scammers have steamed their way through by the truckload.”
Closure in Service of Grief: the Septuagenarian Couple Who Locate Bodies Under Water By Krista Stevens Highlight “What Gene and Sandy offer is not the hope of rescue, but the solace of finality. They have spent years crisscrossing North America in the service of grief.”
Why Amanda Fortini Won’t Soon Be Leaving Las Vegas By Krista Stevens Highlight “Las Vegas is a place about which people have ideas. They have thoughts and generalizations, takes and counter-takes, most of them detached from any genuine experience and uninformed by any concrete reality.”
Sit Back, Relax, and Try Not To Think About the Hole We’re Making In Your Skull By Michelle Weber Highlight You can understand how the dura mater connects to the arachnoid mater, but that doesn’t mean you understand the mind.
Vivian Gornick on ‘Political Activism as a Path Toward a Coherent Self’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “But writing itself, living a life defined by work and intellect rather than love or marriage, became her primary feminist commitment.”
Behind the Magic: The Story of Prince’s Super Bowl Halftime Show By Krista Stevens Highlight “No it’s not about me. It’s about the music, it’s about this moment.”
Please Don’t You Be My Neighbor By Krista Stevens Highlight “To watch those people vanish and be replaced by people who shine like glass, who cut through the sidewalks like knives but reflect nothing back, has been another scraping out. Am I still here? I don’t know anyone here anymore.”
Science Says Life is Better in Intentional Communities By Krista Stevens Highlight Intentional communities are a prophylactic against the plague of loneliness and a gateway to a meaningful life.
Can Japan Break Its Addiction to Disposable Packaging? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One of the most technologically advanced countries in the world pays a high ecological price for its many culinary conveniences.
The Early Years of Elif Batuman’s Interest in Russian Authors By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How a college student’s scholarly investigation into whether Tolstoy was murdered led to her first book, about the people obsessed with Russian literature.
Why the 9/11 Families May Never Get Closure By Krista Stevens Highlight LSS: Because Trump wants to be pals with Saudi crown prince Mohammad Bin Salman.
Making Something Out of Nothing With a Scratch and a Hope: The Ballad of Shovels and Rope By Krista Stevens Highlight “We had nothing to lose,” Cary Ann said. “Fuck it. Band. Family. Let’s give it a shot. . . . Handshake, spit on it. If it gets too nasty we’ll cut and run.”
N.K. Jemisin: ‘I am still going to write what I am going to write.’ By Krista Stevens Highlight Hells to the yes, says I.
Writing Emails to My Late Father By Krista Stevens Highlight “I’m writing my half of a dialogue that I know he would share with me if he could.”
We Use Language as a Spade By Krista Stevens Highlight “Though the embryo was only seven weeks old, I loved it. I loved it and wanted it, and its life ended.”
William Gibson on How Science Fiction Portrays Reality By Krista Stevens Highlight “Every fiction about the future is like an ice-cream cone,” Gibson says, “melting as it moves into the future.”
What Brings True Happiness: the Booze or the Bonding? By Krista Stevens Highlight “But there’s nothing wrong with a nudge toward examining the difference between what makes us happy and what is merely habitual.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel Made it Okay to Write ‘Ouch’ By Sari Botton Highlight Today’s memoirists and personal essay writers owe a debt of gratitude to the Prozac Nation author for rewriting an inhibiting rule.
How Bagel Makers’ Union Local 338 Beat NYC’s “Kosher Nostra” By Krista Stevens Highlight ‘“A bagel,” the newspaper of record explained in 1960, “is an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.”’
Finding Solace in the Charged Particles of the Aurora Borealis By Krista Stevens Highlight “Cree First Nations believe ‘the northern lights are dancing spirits of loved ones who have passed on.’”
Risking Everything for a Better Life By Krista Stevens Highlight Migrants looking for greater opportunity, safety, and freedom sometimes stow away in the wheel wells of jetliners in a bid to escape.
On Course for Certain Disaster By Krista Stevens Highlight “Ten Navy sailors were killed and scores more were injured. It was the Navy’s worst accident at sea in 40 years.” And it was all avoidable.
How Rob Krar Helps Others Outrun Depression By Krista Stevens Highlight “I think a good way to describe my depression is an inability to feel happiness. It’s just this gray zone. I have this beautiful life that I can’t appreciate.”
Who was Behind the First State-Sponsored Computer Attack? The Russians, Quelle Surprise By Krista Stevens Highlight “Don’t go screwing with information that belongs to innocent people!”
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