Upon returning to India, a course in Urdu helps Sharanya Deepak embrace the rich and turbulent history of her native country.
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Violence Girl
How a young bilingual Latina became one of punk’s enduring icons and helped create a new musical universe.
Posted inBundyville The Remnant, Crime, Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Three: The Widow’s Tale
When LaVoy Finicum was shot by law enforcement, the anti-government movement called him a martyr. That message is spreading.
Posted inNonfiction
In Search of Etty Hillesum
The work of a young Jewish diarist, writing in Amsterdam around the time Anne Frank began her famous diary, shows the transformation of pain into radical altruism.
Posted inNonfiction
Oh, Girl!
Migrant children, many of whom are unaccompanied minors, are traveling to the U.S. border to escape violence and seek asylum. Is anyone listening to their stories?
Posted inNonfiction
We Are All We Have
While caring for her mother post-surgery and her grandmother during her final days, Megan Stielstra wonders who’s really taking care of who.
Posted inNonfiction
I Entered the World’s Longest, Loneliest Horse Race on a Whim, and I Won
Somehow, implausibly, against all the odds, I became the youngest person and first woman ever to win the Mongol Derby. What made me so sure I was ready, when I was totally unprepared?
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Renovating a Family
After her husband’s infidelity, Christine Kalafus re-architected her marriage. Now she needs to let her son in on the plans.
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Exilium Vita Est: The Island Home of Victor Hugo
Emma Jacobs takes us on an illustrated journey of Hugo’s writing life in exile on Guernsey, where he completed Les Misérables.
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None of the President’s Men
Journalism now is a lot more fear and insecurity and a lot less corduroy and Robert Redford, but you’d never know it from what is projected.
