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Highlight, Quotes, Sports

What should we do this weekend, go to the movies or sail a handmade raft to Polynesia?

by michelleweber July 20, 2018October 19, 2022

Don McIntyre is not a man who shies away from a challenge — an understatement if there ever was one.

Nonfiction

She Said Her Husband Hit Her. She Lost Custody of Their Kids

by Kathryn Joyce July 8, 2020November 25, 2022

How reporting domestic violence works against women in family court.

Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized

Every Mission is a Suicide Mission

by Nicholas Mainieri August 7, 2018October 19, 2022

Accompanying a contestant to a pro-level Galaga tournament to discover how many digital space bugs you have to destroy to find renown, community, and a modicum of inner peace.

Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Sports

Choosing Amputation Over Pain

by Krista Stevens March 4, 2019October 19, 2022

Swimmer Morgan Stickney opted to amputate her leg below the knee to get off of opioids and get back in the pool after a seemingly innocuous foot injury and the ensuing complications left her in pain.

Nonfiction, Quotes

Meet Spitty, the Whippet Who Holds Five World Records

by Krista Stevens June 21, 2018October 19, 2022

“Science has proven the impossibility of the human brain to register self-pity, or maunder on about the generally sorry state of things, while in the presence of canine bellyflops.”

Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Sports, Story

Benoit Paire, Tennis Solitaire

by Longreads January 23, 2019January 25, 2023

Thessaly La Force hangs out with the lonesome, racquet-smashing Frenchman.

Wrestling in Paris

by benhuberman June 7, 2018October 19, 2022

A pilgrimage to the 2017 World Championships makes Andrew Kay wonder: is wrestling a metaphor for current global politics, or have global politics become increasingly wrestling-like?