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“I-95 is an artery of ambition, movement, and flight. A place where millions of people hurry toward love and loss, carrying their hope, their grief, their ordinary Tuesdays, all at 70 miles per hour.” A favorite program of mine is Race Across the World. The concept is simple: Teams must cross entire countries without flying, armed only […]
“On one hand, it’s critical to root out research fraud and serious errors. On the other hand, highlighting the most dramatic outliers risks creating the impression that science as a whole can’t be trusted.” When I told my 7-year-old daughter that the recent viral clip of bunnies jumping on a trampoline was fake, she looked […]
“In a Tokyo of tourists, the citizens have become strangers.”
“For years, a mysterious figure preyed on gay men in Atlanta. People on the streets called him the Handcuff Man—but the police knew his real name.”
While my uncle was dying from a rare cancer, he found solace in a hotel whose staff became a surrogate family.
“Many women arrived here with only the clothes on their backs and the recipes inside their heads. Cooking again, having a kitchen in which to cook, was a sign of rebuilding; cooking the dishes they knew from home was a comfort and a pleasure, and a way to retain some European identity. You anchored your […]
A typo in my great-uncle’s obituary held the key to understanding him.
Kickstart your reading year with 10 short stories selected by longtime contributor Pravesh Bhardwaj.
“All the parts about me that I hate the most, I got from you. All the parts I love the most, too.”
