The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever

“It also means that with the sweating and dizziness he was feeling in the third game, it’s likely that Fong bowled the last few frames through the beginning of that stroke—which makes the accomplishment that much more amazing.”

Source: D Magazine
Published: Jul 8, 2012
Length: 18 minutes (4,589 words)

The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers

“In Hobbs, New Mexico, the high school closed and football was cancelled, while just across the state line in Texas, students seemed to be living nearly normal lives. Here’s how pandemic school closures exact their emotional toll on young people.”

Source: ProPublica
Published: Mar 8, 2021
Length: 38 minutes (9,654 words)

The Rich Versus the Very, Very Rich

“When a Chinese billionaire bought one of Britain’s most prestigious golf clubs in 2015, dentists and estate agents were confronted with the unsentimental force of globalized capital.”

Source: The Guardian
Published: Mar 2, 2021
Length: 22 minutes (5,700 words)

Positive Obsession

Octavia “Butler called out bigotry unflinchingly; she also imagined futures in which we have so thoroughly dismissed the crude prejudices of racism, sexism, and anti-queerness that we can learn to embrace that which seems Other, such that it ceases to be Other at all.”

Source: Bookforum
Published: Mar 1, 2021
Length: 11 minutes (2,750 words)

Beige Ambition

“Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen grew up to make New York’s most desirable clothes. But can even perfection survive the pandemic?”

Source: The Cut
Published: Mar 2, 2021
Length: 16 minutes (4,110 words)

How Supreme-Style Merch Drops Took Over Corporate America

“If your brand is strong enough, there’s really nothing you can’t slap a logo on and sell at a premium with the aura of exclusivity.”

Source: Marker
Published: Mar 3, 2021
Length: 19 minutes (4,947 words)

Out There I Have to Smile

Heather Lanier writes about raising a disabled daughter and the pressure to perform happiness.

Source: Longreads
Published: Mar 2, 2021
Length: 17 minutes (4,473 words)

It’s Been One Year Since Students Started Widespread Distance Learning

“Someday, there again will be high school proms, science fairs in the gym, and nighttime football games packed with students bathed under white lights. But who will be forgotten and left further behind?”

Source: 5280 Magazine
Published: Mar 1, 2021
Length: 14 minutes (3,559 words)

The Dissenter

“Former Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Johnson’s fiery dissents on mass incarceration and sentencing in America’s most carceral state garnered international attention. But the rise of the first Black woman on the court was characterized by one battle after another with the Deep South’s white power structure.”

Author: Elon Green
Source: The Appeal
Published: Mar 2, 2021
Length: 37 minutes (9,288 words)

Did James Plymell Need to Die?

The toll of criminalizing homelessness in small cities and towns across the American West.

Published: Mar 1, 2021
Length: 26 minutes (6,500 words)