Why the 9/11 Families May Never Get Closure By Krista Stevens 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 “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.”
China’s Communist Government Has a Strong Hold on Chinese Corporations By Aaron Gilbreath China’s largest e-commerce company is not only changing the way people in China shop, but how they think about commerce and each other in a Communist country.
N.K. Jemisin: ‘I am still going to write what I am going to write.’ By Krista Stevens Hells to the yes, says I.
Writing Emails to My Late Father By Krista Stevens “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 “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 “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 “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 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 ‘“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 “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 Migrants looking for greater opportunity, safety, and freedom sometimes stow away in the wheel wells of jetliners in a bid to escape.
When Media Miscalculations Pivot Talented People Out of a Job By Aaron Gilbreath Pivoting to video is only one of many ways media workers lose their jobs, but it’s still a horrible way.
A Beloved Art Critic Sings His Swan Song By Sari Botton “Drink was destroying my life. Tobacco only shortens it, with the best parts over anyway.”
On Course for Certain Disaster By Krista Stevens “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 “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 “Don’t go screwing with information that belongs to innocent people!”
The Guy who Ordered a Hit On His Stepmother for $5 By Krista Stevens Death, delivered as per your instructions.
Purging the Unhealthy Value System of the American Literary World By Aaron Gilbreath It’s time writers free themselves from concepts like “break out books” and “making it.”
They Were Extortionists and the Calls Came from Inside the Prison By Krista Stevens “At least 442 service members across almost every branch of the armed forces had been conned—by prisoners—out of a total of more than half a million dollars.”
Telling About Auschwitz, Before It’s Too Late By Sari Botton His lover in Auschwitz helped him survive. Now he’s sharing his memories to help prevent the worst from happening again.
Responding With Weapons to Racism in Colorado Territory By Aaron Gilbreath Reexamining the motives of Felipe and Vivián Espinosa, two of the American West’s most brutal killers.
Naming the Psychological Effects of Climate Change: Solastalgia By Krista Stevens “The word he came up with was solastalgia, a portmanteau word of the Latin solus, which means ‘abandonment and loneliness,’ and nostalgia.”
‘The American People Have Been Constantly Lied To’ By Krista Stevens “U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.”
Brazil’s Roads to Destruction By Aaron Gilbreath Every year, vehicles on Brazil’s ever-expending road network hit over 400 million Brazilian animals, causing series declines in some species — and Brazil isn’t the only country expanding its infrastructure.
In Death, A Champion for Life Well Lived By Krista Stevens “She no longer feared death because she could hold it in her hands at any time.”
The Octopus’ Branding Makeover: From Devil-Fish to Brilliant Invertebrate By Krista Stevens “Each arm, with its own brain inside, moves completely independent of the others. So much so that arms have been known to steal food from each other.”
The Traffic Jam on Mount Everest that Cost 11 Lives By Krista Stevens “The crowd seemed incredible—like a bag of Skittles had been scattered down the slope.”
Rural California Feeds the Nation, But Too Many Rural Residents Can’t Feed and House Themselves By Aaron Gilbreath In a fertile valley that boats an $8 billion agricultural economy, the people who work the fields and in processing plants rarely enjoy the economic security that the fields’ corporate owners do.
Thou Shalt Not Mess With a Mom in a “Mamacita Needs a Margarita” Sweater By Aaron Gilbreath “This mom runs on caffeine, wine, and Amazon Prime” is a funny t-shirt slogan, but there is a serious social phenomenon behind it.
