Caged
What drives Ronda Rousey to fight?
The Hunt for the Tinmouth Apple
A story about America’s early history of hard cider, and the search for the next great apple.
By the Reflection of What Is
On the aesthetics, performance, and “majestic wrath” of Frederick Douglass, the most-photographed American of the nineteenth century.
The Strange, True Story of How a Chairman at McKinsey Made Millions of Dollars off His Maid
For a brief period of time, Manju Das was almost certainly the wealthiest domestic worker in the world. Unfortunately, she never knew or had access to the money; she was a pawn in an insider trading scheme, and her employer was using her name to collect millions.
Living and Dying on Airbnb
Zak Stone’s father was killed while staying in an Airbnb rental. Here, he examines Airbnb’s history of providing reactive—rather than proactive—solutions to liability issues.
Confessions of a For-Profit College Inspector
Young, desperate, and laden with student loans, Michael Fitzgerald takes a job as a for-profit college inspector, enticing other students into debt to pay back his own.
The Outfield
Spring training, scheming, and lingerie parties: a short story about a community of baseball wives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Lost at Sea
How Salvador Alvarenga survived 438 days at sea, drifting from the coast of Mexico to the Marshall Islands.
Stories of Syrian Refugees: A Reading List
You’ll meet a teenager preparing for her wedding, queer lovers separated by bureaucracy, war and thousands of miles, and four women who defended their Kurdish city to the death. There are artists and activists and archeologists, all working together to preserve Syrian culture and the lives of its citizens.
Blood Ties
Two college lovers, and a murder in 1985.
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