Featuring stories from Paul Kix, Matthieu Aikins, Matt Alt, Elisa Gabbert, and Sophie Elmhirst.
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Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?
“How the Criterion Collection became the film world’s arbiter of taste.”
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A Preservation of Summer Pulled into Winter
“The gin, now, is wrapped up in those memories: wild and unruly in both ways, full of the tang of the uncultivated tree, the illicit uses of these spaces otherwise unused by people.”
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The Other Side of the World’s Largest Dam Removal
“Removing dams from the Klamath River in Northern California seems like a clear win for fish and rivers. Why do some locals hate it?”
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Cairo Song
“I could no longer bear to live within a system that is actively rigged against people, against life, against human flourishing.”
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Chuck Palahniuk Is Not Who You Think He Is
“Twenty-six books in, the author has made a career of writing about loners, misfits, and deviants. But the man behind these controversial and transgressive fictions is full of surprises.”
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Heavily Persecuted, Highly Influential: China’s Online Feminist Revolution
“On Chinese social media, women are censored and harassed, but undeterred.”
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When the Arctic Melts
“What the fate of Greenland means for the rest of the Earth.”
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Have You Been to the Library Lately?
“Librarians once worried about shushing patrons. Now they have to deal with mental health episodes, the homelessness crisis, and random violence.”
