“Of all the red-tailed hawks that have ever soared on a Texas breeze, only one gets to live in Charlie Alvis’s house, at least during the winter hunting season. ‘My bird has its own bedroom,’ said Alvis, a falconer who’s based in the unincorporated community of Porter, just beyond the northern outskirts of Houston.”
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A Year in Reading: Power to the People
Incorrigible, insightful, inspiring: the incredible people of 2024.
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A Storefront For Robots
“The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.”
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Ed Sheeran Confesses: Tears, Trauma, and Those Bad Habits
“When he became a dad, his ‘party boy’ days ended. Then tragedy struck, forcing him to face his hidden dark side — and hit his hottest creative streak.”
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When Horror Is the Truth-teller
“It is hard, in the era of the AR-15, to fear a vampire.”
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Conjuring Love: A Conversation with Kiese Laymon
“The same ingredients are a part of all of us. They’re just shaped and distributed differently.”
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One Man’s Quest to Transform the West Texas Desert
“An urban dweller ventures to far West Texas with a dream to transform a barren desert into a lush forest.”
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This Week: Rituals, Emoji, and a Cold Case
“Ritual is an urge and an act; it’s an aesthetic gesture. As an adult I established the habit of turning my attention to those subtle seasonal details and recording them. I was loving and honoring the land, but this practice still left something undone. A certain clarity, maybe formality. Something like a frame around a […]
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The Fight of My Life
“When my wife and daughter were killed in Iran’s downing of Flight PS752, my life was thrown into total darkness.”
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On Hope
“Knowing I had to be strong for someone allowed me to access more bedrock than I even knew I had.”
