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.
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What Ever Happened to ‘The Most Liberated Woman in America’?
Barbara Williamson co-founded one of the most famous radical sex experiments in America. Then she got wild.
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Limits, or How to Avoid the Precipice Between Courage and Humility
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 […]
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction, Reading List
Kay Redfield Jamison, William Styron and the True Stories of Mental Illness
“For individuals who live with moods that change often and intensely, life is a tempestuous experience.”
Posted inGuest Pick, Reading List
Six Stories About the Swimming Pool
Stories about swimming and swimming pools.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
What Ever Happened to ‘The Most Liberated Woman in America’?
Barbara Williamson co-founded one of the most famous radical sex experiments in America. Then she got wild.
Posted inGuest Pick, Reading List
Six Stories About the Swimming Pool
Stories about swimming and swimming pools.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The True Story That Inspired the Movie ‘Foxcatcher’
The bloody true story of John E. Du Pont, his Foxcatcher Farms estate, and the Olympic gold medal winning Schultz brothers.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Secret Language of Tennis Champions
A look at how identical twins—and Olympic gold medalists—Mike and Bob Bryan communicate with each other, as well a larger discussion of “cryptophasia” or the shared language between twins.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Unapologetic Women
A Collection of Stories About Not Choosing Motherhood
Stories about not having children.
