“A former FBI agent traveled to Louisiana to ask a hired killer about a murder that haunted him. Then they started talking about a different case altogether.”
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Tasting Indian Creek
“We let the sauce simmer until it is thick. The apparition of my grandmother lingers awhile before it disappears.”
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Four Lost Pregnancies. Five Weeks of IVF Injections. One Storm.
“A couple spent years and tens of thousands of dollars trying to have a baby. Then Hurricane Ian hit.”
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Don’t Bleed on the Artwork: Notes from the Afterlife
“The frame changes everything.”
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The Plot Thickens (and the Week’s Top 5)
“Accommodating the dead, like accommodating the living, has always entailed a head-on collision with the awkward reality that we have a finite amount of physical space.” Okay, yes, sure, maybe you weren’t expecting a quote about dead bodies to kick off your Friday morning. But I assure you that our new feature, “Disneyland of the […]
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Manhattan Burning
Before the Jan. 6 insurrection, there was the Nov. 25 arson campaign, when violent anti-government conspirators sowed chaos in the heart of New York City.
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The Nurse Who Names the Dead
Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America.
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I Gave Myself a Month to Make One New Friend. How Hard Could That Be?
“Americans have become terrible at making and keeping friends.”
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Eight Limes, No More: The Accidental Poetry of Found Lists
A found list is a rare analog window into someone else’s needs—an accidental autobiography, a blank space to be filled with one’s imagination.
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Finding Jordan Neely
“He had places he belonged and people looking out for him. How did he end up dying, alone, at the hands of a stranger?”
