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The Secret Nazi Attempt to Breed the Perfect Horse

by Dana Snitzky August 23, 2016October 19, 2022

The bestselling author of ‘The Eighty Dollar Champion’ describes the Nazis’ secret stud farm, where dubious visionaries imagined a breed of perfect (and perfectly white) horse.

Books, Nonfiction, Story

Becoming One of the World’s 65 Million Refugees

by Longreads October 20, 2016February 22, 2023

Majid Hussain keeps having to run.

Nonfiction, Quotes

The Loaded Expectations and Hopes of a Fan Relationship

by juliawick March 25, 2015October 19, 2022

The fan relationship is often built on expectations and hope, however unfair they might be. My expectation going to Dominique [Moceanu]’s hotel that night in 1998 was that she’d come down from her room even after a long day of training and competing, and grant me an autograph or, if I was really lucky, a […]

Books, Nonfiction, Story

The Secret Nazi Attempt to Breed the Perfect Horse

by Dana Snitzky August 23, 2016October 19, 2022

The bestselling author of ‘The Eighty Dollar Champion’ describes the Nazis’ secret stud farm, where dubious visionaries imagined a breed of perfect (and perfectly white) horse.

A Life in Motion, Stopped Cold

by Automattic May 18, 2015October 19, 2022

Brazilian gymnast Laís Souza had already competed in the Olympics twice when she was recruited into the relatively new sport of aerial skiing. Souza took on the new sport at warp-speed, qualifying for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games just seven months after she began her aerials career. But then disaster struck.

Nonfiction

What Ever Happened to ‘The Most Liberated Woman in America’?

by Longreads June 7, 2016October 19, 2022

Barbara Williamson co-founded one of the most famous radical sex experiments in America. Then she got wild.

Nonfiction, Quotes

Limits, or How to Avoid the Precipice Between Courage and Humility

by Krista Stevens May 22, 2015October 19, 2022

I need to tell you about the Cirque of the Unclimbables. Ever since I went there, I’ve tried to describe it to friends and family, tried to explain its power and its perfection. It is, I tell people, the best natural campsite I have ever visited. It’s also among the most beautiful eyefuls of landscape […]