“On the poetics of loss.”
death
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Charnel Heart
A bone chapel promised to teach me about mortality. It took a life-threatening illness for me to learn.
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What Happens When Your Abuser Kills Himself?
“These women’s abusive partners died by suicide. They felt both relief and grief. The NHS didn’t know what to do with them.”
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Beyond the Glass
Among a collection’s many skulls, a grieving son learns how to live in a world that keeps going.
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She Died at the San Diego Border. A Surveillance Camera Was in Plain Sight.
“In Southern California’s Otay Mountain Wilderness, the federal surveillance network seems unavoidable. But year after year, migrant deaths persist.”
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Going Up and Going In
A solo climber considers the outermost reaches of risk, and the unlikely ways in which they redefine us.
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Speaking for the Dead
A New York Times veteran considers the art of the obituary and how words give shape to legacies.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: in a pickle; gut feeling; king of pain; life (or something like it); for those about to rock.