“Embarking on four days of total blackout, inside the sensory equivalent of a tomb, our writer went on a dark-cave retreat, the same one that quarterback Aaron Rodgers did.”
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Shooting an Elephant in Botswana
“Trophy hunting is uncomfortable for some in the West but a lifeline for many locals.”
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Inside the Paris Attacks Trial
“A man stood up and said: ‘Stop it, what are you doing?’ One of the killers shot him.”
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The Hidden-Pregnancy Experiment
“We are increasingly trading our privacy for a sense of security. Becoming a parent showed me how tempting, and how dangerous, that exchange can be.”
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Saving Rhea Seegobin
“For the growing number of Canadians who will get cancer in their lifetimes, the financial stress can be profound.”
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Solastalgia
“Pleasant memories of places past: that’s nostalgia. But what do you call the grief that comes when the modern world leaves nary a trace of the place that raised you?”
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Crimes of the Century
“How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law.”
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The Very Public Library, Food as Fuel, and Our Top 5
“It’s our least popular and most enforced rule: we don’t allow people to sleep in the library. We know you’re tired, we know it’s warm, we know it feels safe. But someone who is dying also looks like someone who is sleeping, and we’ve all seen our share of overdoses. Also, if one person is […]
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The Languages Lost To Climate Change
“Climate catastrophes and biodiversity loss are endangering languages across the globe.”
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Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud
“A century ago, an aspiring actress published a remarkable autobiography. She made up most of it.”
