Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind
Companies that deal with the belongings left behind after you die are in demand in Japan, “where each year more people die with no one to mourn them.”
The Fish That Gave Too Much
The history of colatura — a fermented anchovy-based sauce produced in Italy — goes back millennia. Now, overfishing and rapidly warming waters threaten its future.
Bridget Jones’s Staggeringly Outdated Diary
Nineties relationship books had some serious issues, man.
The Police Brutality Video That Still Haunts McKinney, Texas
Olga Khazan revisits her hometown to ask McKinney residents how they’ve been faring since a 2015 viral video captured Eric Casebolt, a white police officer, using excessive force on Dajerria Becton, a black teenager, at an unauthorized pool party. Khazan soon finds that tensions in the community are still running high three years later, and that the fallout tracks with how private club pools and homeowners’ associations have historically provided a cover for redlining.
The Gulp War
An insider look at the “Academy Awards of Water” — held in West Virginia, a state where many lack clean tap water — where judges rank the taste of a substance whose main characteristic is tastelessness.
Inside the Slow-Motion Disaster on the Southern Border
One journalist speaks with immigrants to learn what life is like in the center of America’s immigration, and moral, crisis.
How Prisons Are Poisoning Their Inmates
“Despite resistance from activist groups, state and federal prisons continue to be built in dangerous environments that imperil the health of inmates.”
How to Stay Married After Your Baby is Born, or, I’m not Divorced Yet
An excerpt of “Now My Heart is Full,” Laura June’s memoir, about the challenges new parenthood placed on her and her husband — and their marriage.
Mind the Dog’s Feet
After a trip to Durban, novelist Chibundu Onuzo discovers that Nigerians are not always popular with South Africans, and that where some black South Africans see a history of oppression, Nigerians see opportunity.
The Woman Coming for Larry Nassar’s Job
Gymnast Selena Brennan was treated — and abused — by Larry Nasser at Michigan State for years. Today she’s studying kinesiology there, preparing to increase the representation of women doctors in gymnastics.
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