“Fresh out of college, we were a bunch of misfits, in a chaotic, run-down communal home, desperately trying to figure out who we were meant to be.”
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It Was the Most Violent Prison in America. Then the Guards Went on Strike
“What happens when a group of men, incarcerated under bleak conditions, are left to govern themselves? In Walpole State Prison in 1973, ‘peace reigned’ for weeks—until the guards were sent back in.”
There She Goes: A Reading List on Women Adventurers
The women you’ll find on top of the world.
The Journalist Who the Nazis Could Not Silence
No one has ever received more nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize than Carl von Ossietzky. This is his story.
Becoming a Centenarian
“Like The New Yorker, I was born in 1925. Somewhat to my surprise, I decided to keep a journal of my hundredth year.”
30 Years Later: Phyllis Hyman, “I Refuse to Be Lonely”
The singer’s first posthumous album deserves to be remembered as the bravest of her career.
Giving Our Bodies Back to the Earth: The Rise of Natural Burial
“What if your body could nourish the land long after you’re gone?”
Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?
“I spent two days at Notion and saw an industry in upheaval. I also shipped some actual code.”
St. John the Wondermaker
“Since April, on the past five fourth Wednesdays of the month I have driven to St. John the Wondermaker Orthodox Church, in Atlanta’s Grant Park neighborhood, to wash and trim and file the feet of a handful of the city’s 2,200 unhoused men.”
