Can anyone truly fully recover from witnessing — and losing loved ones — in a school shooting?
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You Talk Real Good
Alison Stine confronts the ways in which being hard of hearing has made her job search more difficult.
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In Pocahontas County, Deep Divisions and a Gruesome Discovery
In an excerpt from ‘The Third Rainbow Girl,’ Emma Copley Eisenberg interrogates various social conditions that might have contributed to a mysterious double murder in West Virginia in 1980.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
When Friendship Fades But the Images Linger
Eryn Loeb looks back on a summer spent taking pictures, and a friend she lost touch with.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story
‘I’m a Big Fan of Writing To Find Out What You Don’t Know.’
Mark Haber discusses “Reinhardt’s Garden” and its protagonist’s quest for a true understanding of melancholy: “not a feeling but a mood, not a color but a shade, not depression but not happiness either…”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Old Dudes On Skateboards
The death of his life-long skateboarding friend prompts Aaron Gilbreath to get back on his board — at 44, with his toddler daughter in tow.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Home Field Disadvantage
What will it take to get women’s baseball the recognition it deserves?
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I’ll Be Loving You Forever
My best friend and the New Kids on the Block, 30 years later.
Posted inArts & Culture, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The World’s Tallest Dwarf
Late capitalism gets an antihero show.
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The Cult That Promises to Cure Addiction
For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have offered to help teenagers kick drugs and alcohol. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives—it destroys them.
