Shalon Irving was educated, insured, and well-supported by family and friends. She still became a casualty of missed opportunities and neglect by healthcare providers.
Search results
Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature
The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester
On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester
On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.
Posted inEditor's Pick
NPR’s Mobile Home Series
A two-part report on conditions at mobile home parks in the U.S. Read parts one and two here.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Kent State Shootings, 35 Years Later
On the 47th anniversary of the Kent State shootings, NPR has this excerpt of 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings, former Chicago Tribune reporter Philip Caputo’s 2005 book about covering the massacre, in which members of the Ohio National Guard shot and killed unarmed students who were protesting the Vietnam War.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story
Alexa de Paris
Miles Marshall Lewis remembers a love of Prince and Paris.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
After the Tsunami
After the 2011 disaster, which killed his grandmother and laid waste to his ancestral home, an American journeys to Japan to search for what the tsunami left in its wake.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
Five Early Lessons in Parenting
Steven Church discovers his own fragility and limitations in these five discussions with his son.
Posted inCollege, Nonfiction, Sports, Story
Is It Ever Too Late to Pursue a Dream?
Dan Stoddard believes there is room in the NBA for a 42-year-old rookie.
