Lavish Parties, Greedy Pols and Panic Rooms: How the ‘Apple of Pot’ Collapsed
“MedMen was the country’s hottest pot startup—until it flamed out. Its fall has exposed the gap between “green rush” hype and the realities of a troubled industry.”
‘F**king N***er.’ A Racist Incident on Bachelors Walk
“I thought about what it meant to have a stranger’s saliva on my skin. Did it sink into my pores, or slide its way into my mouth? The possibility that their violence would linger on me, in me, forever, was untenable.”
Your Wilderness Is Not Permanent
At an uncertain time in her life, Sejal Shah does Burning Man her own way. An excerpt from This Is One Way to Dance, her new memoir in essays.
It Does Not Matter If You Are Good
“You learn, at some point, how to perform being non-threatening and you learn that often it matters less how well you perform and more whether the audience for said performance believes it.”
Long May They Reign
“A butterfly named Flamingo, an epic migration, and the crusade to save one of America’s most iconic species.”
The Sound and The Fury of Jericho Brown
“His poetry deftly names the forces — be it cop, disease, or addiction — that would have him dead, while he celebrates the beauty, be it in a flower, in a lover’s embrace, or in anything that helps him thrive in this burning world.”
The American Nightmare
“Either there is something superior or inferior about the races, something dangerous and deathly about black people, and black people are the American nightmare; or there is something wrong with society, something dangerous and deathly about racist policy, and black people are experiencing the American nightmare.” One is a racist myth; the other, antiracist truth.
Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?
“I just don’t think Americans fully realize how terrorizing it is to black males when we are falsely suspected as violent criminals.”
Cops Are Always the Main Characters
Cop shows humanize cops. They align us with the police. They desensitize us to police violence. It’s time to turn that CSI marathon off.
On Travel Writing
Shelter in place has given The Best American Travel Writing series editor a lot of time to think about travel writing’s future, and whether pandemic will move travel writers’ focus closer to home.
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