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My Dad, the Demigod
“Henry Wismayer lost his dad to cancer at the age of four. He thinks through the ways it has shaped his life.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Can Your Stomach Handle a Meal at Alchemist?
“At the Copenhagen restaurant, diners are served raw jellyfish—and freeze-dried lamb brain served in a fake cranium—while videos about climate change swirl on the ceiling. Is it ‘gastronomic opera,’ or sensory overload?”
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Asbestos: A Corporate Coverup, a Public Health Catastrophe
“In the UK, thousands of people are still dying every year from exposure to the asbestos fibres in our homes, schools and workplaces. My dad was one of them.”
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A Water Obsession and Our Weekly Top 5
“The majority of home water use takes place in the bathroom, so that’s where I started. I scaled back my showers to once a week and only flushed the toilet when the need was overwhelming. I wandered my dark little apartment doing calculations on a loop. How many gallons of water does the Livingston faucet […]
Posted inFeature
Ya’aburnee, Four Ways
A family curse, a grandfather, a pet, a friend—and one untranslatable word to encompass them all.
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Army Vet, Double Amputee, and Athlete Christy Gardner Has Never Let Anything Stop Her
“When she’s not training service and therapy dogs through her nonprofit work, she’s pushing herself to excel in parasports.”
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‘An Ass-Backward Sherlock Holmes’
“Over seven seasons on NBC, Columbo put a charming, shambolic gloss on the crime show. Now it has a new generation of imitators.”
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Does My Son Know You?
Ringer writer Jonathan Tjarks veers from his usual NBA beat to unpack his cancer diagnosis and the shadow it casts over his experience as a son and a father. Unblinking and plainspoken, he somehow manages to strip the emotion out of his writing — but not the emotional impact. I was 12. That’s the age […]
Posted inNonfiction
A Medical Nightmare
An ob-gyn in Virginia performed unnecessary surgeries on patients for decades. When his victims learned the truth, they fought back.
