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Whatever Happened to Eddy Crane?
A writer quits her job to obsessively investigate a famous Baltimore cold case—the 1987 disappearance of her own father.
What Happens When A Parent’s Grief Goes Viral?
Humans have always found meaning in the tragedies of others. But what happens when social media enables well-meaning, sometimes-obsessive followers to take part in the grief of people they’ve never met?
In Conversation: Nancy Meyers
The filmmaker on women in Hollywood, and why there’s no romance in her new film.
A Dying Young Woman’s Hope in Cryonics and a Future
A young woman’s last request before dying of cancer: Have her brain cryonically preserved so that neuroscience might one day reviver her mind.
Women and Their Relationship with Alcohol: A Reading List
You’ll read work by memoirists, poets and scholars. As Michelle Dean writes, addiction stories may include moments of sentiment and cliche, but they’re no less true. In fact, cliche is tantamount to survival. Seven stories, each with their own twist (no pun intended).
High Desert Suicide
Was a guard at one of the country’s most dangerous prisons hazed to death by his fellow correctional officers?
Drinking at 1,300 Feet
A haunting essay about a magazine writer’s experiences attending The Windows on the World Wine School at the World Trade Center.
Whatsoever Things Are True
A Chicago man is convicted and sentenced to death for a double murder that occurred in 1982. Years later, a journalism school teacher and his students work to free him, and in 1999 another man confesses to the crime, but later recants. Shaer walks us through a very complex story of how a broken system failed for decades to render justice in a 33-year-old crime.
The Radical Calm of Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold is the closest thing rock climbing has ever had to a household name.
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