Confessions of an Instagram Influencer
Can an agency turn anyone into an Instagram star? Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Max Chafkin volunteers to find out.
Geek Love: On Nerditry as Salvation in ’70s Small-Town Canada
At The Walrus, Kevin Patterson writes on how his fraternal twin brother embraced nerditry to navigate the homophobia of small-town Canada in the ’70s.
“They Went to Sea in a Sieve, They Did”
In 1969, Donald Crowhurst fooled the world into believing he sailed around the globe.
For Deaf Tennis Player, Sound Is No Barrier
South Korea’s Lee Duck-hee is 18 years old and ranked 143rd in the world in a sport where hearing the ball is considered crucial.
What’s Wrong with Literary Studies?
How a group of English scholars are trying to bring emotion and engagement back into the study of literature.
Truther Love
Uncovering the dating habits of conspiracy theorists and the challenges they face.
Fidel Castro Is Dead. What Will Cuban-Americans Like Me Do Now?
After Castro’s long reign, three tales of exile and identity examine the complicated relation of American-born Cubans to their families’ homeland.
How Spanish Immersion School Made All the Difference for One Family
A family spends 10 weeks in Mexico and Argentina trying to learn Spanish.
Pregnant in Panama
To celebrate the release of the 2016 edition of Best American Travel Writing, here’s one of the essays reprinted in the anthology. In it, writer Freda Moon visits her father in Panama on the cusp of having her first child. People kept telling her “having children will change everything,” but her traveling parents taught her that parenting does not spell the end of exploration and adventure.
Christine Who Fed the Hungry
An elegy for a much beloved volunteer chef and leader of the rest of the volunteers at a soup kitchen in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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