On Sept. 19, 2017 a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Mexico, sending panicked residents fleeing into the streets. For two brothers the fear was familiar—they had experienced this exactly 32 years before.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Taking Up Smoking at the End of the World
In his late twenties, John Sherman finds a new fondness for cigarettes, despite everything he was ever taught about them.
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Getting to Know Japanese Dashi Stock
“Dashi is like the key actor in a movie,” says 83-year-old Chobei Yagi, whose 275-year-old store, Tokyo’s Yagicho Honten, specializes in katsuobushi and other dried foods. “But dashi always plays the supporting role, never the star.” Most katsuobushi today comes pre-sliced in plastic bags, which is convenient and allows one to make dashi from scratch […]
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Not Really A Distant Aunt: My Family’s Slave
“Once, when I was sick for a long time and too weak to eat, she chewed my food for me and put the small pieces in my mouth to swallow.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature
The Surgeon Who Helped Revolutionize Hand Transplants
Dr. Kodi Azari dreamed that one day he’d perform a hand transplant on a patient who would wake up from surgery and start moving their fingers right away.
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Kathleen Hale Hunts the Most Dangerous Game
“Pregnancy is a time of regression. It throws the mind into maturational crisis.”
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Bona-Fide Celebrities: Nikki Finke on the Late ’80s ‘Literary Brat Pack’
In 1987, a young Nikki Finke profiled the “Literary Brat Pack” (choice Brat Pack members included Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney, of Less Than Zero and Bright Lights, Big City fame, respectively) for The Los Angeles Times.
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Prince: 1958-2016
Prince, the singer, songwriter, producer, and rock star, died on April 21 at the age of 57. Here are six stories about the legendary musician.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Quotes
What Alex Jones and Amanda Chantal Bacon Have in Common
A new profile of the Moon Juice entrepreneur reveals how the hippie left intersects with the conspiracist right.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction
How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music
On Guthrie, Robeson, Seeger, Lomax, Dylan, the Red Scare, the fall of labor, and what folk music had to do with it.
