The Lives Upended Around a $20 Cheeseburger
“A cash-strapped rancher, a virus-stricken meatpacker, an underpaid chef, a hungry engineer: the journey of a single burger during a pandemic.”
The Hero of Goodall Park
In 2018, a car careened onto a baseball field in Sanford, Maine, killing one spectator. Fifty years before, in upstate New York, a car had hit and killed a little girl. The two incidents were part of the same remarkable story.
Nature’s Revenge Porn: Animal Documentaries at the End of the Earth
“From the emergence of the form, documentaries have sought out and fictionalized the most extreme points of contact between ‘humanity’ and ‘the wild,’ not only reflecting back but actively promoting a set of myths that license oppression, extractivism, mass eviction; the histories of documentary, exploitation, and wilderness conservation are darkly intertwined.”
Pitchfork Sunday Review: Pure Moods, Vol. 1
“Even those most irony-poisoned among us can wrap ourselves around the fullness of Pure Moods as a pop object that’s completed its natural tour of meaning: a curio first taken in earnest, then as a joke, now as a museum fixture that holds both forces in its heart at once.”
Pregnant in a Pandemic
Letters from four women to their unborn children, written in an uncertain world.
My Child Is Transgender: This Is How I Know
“I thought I had a daughter. Then I thought I had a tomboy. But now I know: I have a son.”
What Happened In Bethel, Ohio?
How a Black Lives Matter protest rocked a small town, exposing divisions few people wanted to see.
Michaela the Destroyer
“How a young talent from East London went from open-mic nights to making the most sublimely unsettling show of the year.”
“Nothing in a church or in a family stays hidden forever”
A megachurch pastor kept his son’s attraction to children secret. Then his other son blew the whistle.
Stories in the Shine
‘Few things say “hillbilly” in that condescending Hollywood way than the word “moonshine.” But when you visit the new breed of legal shiners in West Virginia, you learn how they fill every barrel with the complex, distinctive stories of Appalachia.’
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