All Dressed Up: Five Stories About Style
Style has no limits. Wear socks with sandals. Dress as a different character every day. Admire your reflection in the subway windows. Here are five stories about our connection with the clothes we wear.
The Rookie and the Zetas
How the Feds took down a drug cartel’s horse-racing empire.
Escape from Baghdad!: Saad Hossain’s New Satire of the Iraq War
In his debut, Saad Hossain brings a much-needed cynicism to our literature of the Iraq War. An absurdist protest novel in the vein of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5 or Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, Escape from Baghdad! relentlessly focuses the reader’s attention on the folly of war.
The Great Cocaine Treasure Hunt
A man finds a million dollars’ worth of cocaine washed up on a beach and buries it. A group goes in search of it years later.
This Is How We Lose Them
What can be done about Cincinnati’s woeful infant mortality rate?
The Answer Is Never
Rewriting the false narrative of childlessness.
No Man’s Land
A story about our broken immigration system. Conflicting state and federal laws have prevented José Espino-Paez—and thousands like him—from becoming legal residents.
Slumber Party!
The disruptors have found their latest target—the $14 billion mattress industry. Can the new crowd of startups successfully turn the most utilitarian of purchases into a “quirky, shareable adventure”?
Buried Alive in a Grain Silo
Four years ago, Erika Hayasaki learned about the death of two young men in a corn grain bin accident in the Midwest. Over the next two years, while pregnant and later with her then-six-month-year-old daughter and husband in tow, she left her life in Los Angeles to visit Mount Carroll, Illinois, population 1,700, to capture the story. The following is an excerpt from Hayasaki’s story, Drowned By Corn, which describes the lives of the young workers before the accident.
Defending Darwin
What it’s like to teach evolution at the University of Kentucky.
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