This Fish House in Maine Is an Icon
But of what, exactly? On beauty, authenticity, and community in the Instagram age.
Ghosts of the Future
A massive Canadian fossil trove reminds us how fleeting life on Earth can be—and how much peril we’re in.
New York City Paid McKinsey Millions to Stem Jail Violence. Instead, Violence Soared.
The corporate consulting firm reported bogus numbers and flailed in a project at Rikers Island. Today, assaults and other attacks there are up almost 50 percent.
The Age of Instagram Face
Jia Tolentino goes undercover into the world of plastic surgery, where everyone wants to look like an already-warped version of Kim Kardashian.
‘This Is Small Talk Purgatory’: What Tinder Taught Me About Love
Just when she is about to give up on finding real human connection on a dating app, C.J. Hauser meets a mate — who stays in her life for a while.
Will Lloyd Center Last Another Christmas? A Week Inside a Mall on the Edge
One of Portand, Oregon’s oldest shopping centers has gone from thriving to ragged. During the busiest shopping week of the year, two reporters spent time inside it to understand the decline and search for signs of hope.
Self-Portrait as a Human Interest Story
Emi Nietfeld considers an assortment of adversities that both hurt and buoyed her in her youth, and interrogates how the narrative of resilience minimizes suffering.
The Complicated, Problematic Influence of TripAdvisor Restaurant Reviews
“Despite its mediocre reputation in New York’s food world, Olio e Piú was busy in part because at the time, it was ranked the No. 1 restaurant in New York City — on TripAdvisor.”
Books Are Not Products, They Are Bridges: Challenging Linear Ideas of Success in Literary Publishing
With five books to her name, an innovative author untangles the ways the white, patriarchal, capitalist publishing economy shapes authors’ sense of self-worth, literary identity, and inherited ideas about big versus small presses, and good versus break-out books.
Under the Weather
Ash Sanders considers the heavy psychological cost of climate change and society-at-large’s strangely dismissive view of those who routinely make personal sacrifices in order to help the planet survive.
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