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“I came to a shack with a small, white-haired man inside. I assumed he had been guarding Devil’s Bridge for centuries. I answered his riddles three and he gestured for me to sign in. At the end of his hand was a damp pile of papers and a pen on a gray string. Like most […]
A writer recollects her family history by excavating memories buried in Singapore’s reclaimed land.
“Fifty years ago, a Kansas family picked up a hitchhiker on their way to Iowa. What happened on that drive became part of literary history.”
Three mothers, one struggle: saving their children with schizophrenia.
The singer’s first posthumous album deserves to be remembered as the bravest of her career.
“Two women promised they would see the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time once they were together. They had no idea how long that would take.”
“Nims Purja has become the first celebrity mountaineer of the social media age—and the most controversial figure in the global climbing community.”
“Iranian protesters on what brings them back to the streets four weeks in.”
India is experiencing an unprecedented heat wave. Dhruv Khullar describes what living and working in the extreme heat feels like, especially for the country’s poorest residents in and around Delhi. The women described headaches, exhaustion, dizziness, rashes, fever. The stench of the landfill—an acrid mixture of excrement and rotting trash—was sickening, they said, but the […]
“‘Did you enjoy your tour? Carrot-ginger soup for lunch today!’ And please don’t look at the corpse over there.”
