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“Most people here were trying to find a way to live with events that could have broken their lives: absence, illness, loss, death. How could I fault them for something I also wanted, which was to wring meaning from things that have none?” “Why was I stumbling alongside this mass of the devout?” This is […]
Germany’s Black Forest faces a future of transformation. So do the people who have lived there for centuries.
Recommending excellent stories from Lewis Hyde, Reeves Wiedeman, Sam Myers, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and David W. Brown.
How FBI silence and stonewalling forced William and Theresa Reilly to travel to Russia to find out what happened to their son.
“A digital sleuth named Bryan Hance has spent the past four years obsessively uncovering a bicycle-theft pipeline of astonishing scale.”
A filmmaker was producing a documentary series on the Iran hostage crisis. Then her father went missing overseas.
At BuzzFeed News, Albert Samaha describes his effort to save his mom from QAnon.
“Ritual is an urge and an act; it’s an aesthetic gesture. As an adult I established the habit of turning my attention to those subtle seasonal details and recording them. I was loving and honoring the land, but this practice still left something undone. A certain clarity, maybe formality. Something like a frame around a […]
A brother lost, a son born, and the strange arithmetic of love.
