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A Nation Deranged
“Matt Eich’s photobook series, ‘The Invisible Yoke,’ is an exorcism of the country’s demons.”
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A Trip to the Library and Our Weekly Top 5
“I may never have wanted to be a librarian, but I love this job. This specific job. Not because of any kind of noble commitment to knowledge or love of books. I love it because every day requires me to meet humanity face to face.” What does it mean to be a librarian today? At […]
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The Great AI Art Heist
“A lab at the University of Chicago is protecting artists from theft by a new adversary: the machines.”
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Touching The Elephant: Notes from a Haitian in the Diaspora
“It has always been a failure of both imagination and of historical evidence, to only center Haiti in crisis.”
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An English Murder Mystery, an Antarctic Romance, and Our Top 5
“I know this land is far from sinister, I know it is appreciated by those who live here, but I also see that the life of a dairy farmer is often a hard, unforgiving existence. And no family saw that solitude and struggle more than the Luxtons.” In the late summer of 1975, deep in […]
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The Xi Jinping School of Journalism
“The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter.”
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We’re So Back
“The ‘get-your-ex-back’ industry is booming. It really shouldn’t be.”
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Is Traveling to Every Country in the World a Worthy Cause? This Group Thinks So.
“I tagged along on a surreal trip to a conflict zone in Azerbaijan with a group of explorers known as the world’s Most Traveled People.”
