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Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. * * * 1. Life, After Miles O’Brien | New York magazine | June 12, 2014 | 10 minutes (2,680 words) TV reporter Miles O’Brien’s first-person […]
On March 2, 2012, a tornado hit the village of Moscow, Ohio. A look at how the residents fared: At approximately 4:47 p.m., it hits the riverfront homes. In the first second, a tornado can break every window in a house. It rips shingles loose and pries the roof free, moving over it like air […]
Solvency has haunted Antioch College, a liberal arts school in Yellow Springs Ohio with a storied history, which shuttered its doors in 2008. The college reopened last year with 35 students, and is looking for new ways to draw students and maintain financial stability: When the first students arrived on campus last fall, they found […]
“If you survive me, tell them this: I never gave up.”
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Featured Longreader: Jonah Ogles, an associate editor at Cincinnati magazine. See his story picks from the magazine, plus more from The New York Review of Books, Outside magazine, plus more on his #longreads page.
“If you survive me, tell them this: I never gave up.”
