A year after the Camp Fire, Tessa Love contemplates home, California’s undoing, and what it means to belong.
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Game of Crones
It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
On Subtlety
What’s so great about having things spelled out clearly?
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story
How Diderot’s Encyclopedia Challenged the King
The encyclopedists’ plan to catalog knowledge seemed harmless enough. But what they intended was far more subversive: to restructure knowledge itself.
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Lost in Backcountry Corsica
When two Irish travelers take hiking advice from a supposed guide, they soon find themselves relying on their wits in the dark.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story, Uncategorized
The Way We Treat Our Pets Is More Paleolithic Than Medieval
Hunter-gatherers tended to think of pets as part of the family, and so do we. But in other time periods, intimacy with animals has been more taboo.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quotes
‘I was pain incarnate.’
As she lives with terminal cancer, Teva Harrison reflects on how fentanyl is helping her make the most of the time she has left.
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An Oregon Wolf, Profiled
A fateful encounter between Oregon’s mightiest wolf and the scientist who would track him for the next six years.
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Prince of the Midwest
For one Wisconsin farm boy, Minneapolis will always be the city of Purple Rain.
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Finally Seeing the Forest for the Trees
A personal essay in which, after a spate of trauma and loss, Maura Kelly retreats to the woods of the Hudson Valley. There, she is converted into “a nature person.”
