What Do We Do With Feelings Now That They Don’t Matter Anymore?
Sarah Miller thinks about climate change and other current horrors, and what it’s like just being sad forever.
The Jazz Icon Sonny Rollins Knows Life Is A Solo Trip.
David Marchese talks to jazz genius Sonny Rollins about why he decided not to publish his ideas on saxophone technique and harmony and his distinct lack of nostalgia for jazz days gone by.
Karen Russell: A Brutally Honest Accounting of Writing, Money, and Motherhood
“Every minute with her kids is work lost, and each minute writing subtracts from precious, un-price-able joy.”
How Judith Jones Radically Transformed American Food Writing
Julia Child, MFK Fisher, Edna Lewis — behind the most influential food writers was one innovative, exacting editor.
Mother Land
When a native of North Korea returns to the country with her daughter, it is not a homecoming. It is also proof that narrative is a human construct we impose on a disorderly reality.
Five Quarters of the Orange: A Sense of Place in the Inland Empire
Author Susan Straight was born in Riverside, California and still lives in Riverside. For her, residents’ citrus trees and commeraderie are the ties that bound people in Los Angeles Metropolitan Area’s massive interior, and they’re what can sustain them through future hard times.
The Tyranny of Terrazzo: Will the Millennial Aesthetic Ever End?
Clean, soothing, predicatable, controlled, and ready for Instagram.
The Pioneer of Online Gambling
Another fantastic installment of Michael LaPointe’s monthly gambling column Dice Roll. This one is about Steve Schillinger, who sold futures for things you would never find on the Pacific Stock Exchange, including whether O. J. would go to prison.
Habitat Loss
The Roaring Cat Retreat was more than one couple’s personal zoo. It was a symbol of the divisions between a small Canadian town’s rich and poor, its past and present, and the park’s closure threatened to take some of Grand Bend, Ontario’s unusual character with it.
The Drone Boat Of ‘Shipwreck Alley’
“Meet BEN, the self-driving boat that’s been tasked with helping lay bare the long-lost secrets of the lakebed.”
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