In this edition:
• A pair of aces
• Room for growth
• Still a-maze-ing
• Wheel of misfortune
• The road less traveled
In an excerpt from ‘The Third Rainbow Girl,’ Emma Copley Eisenberg interrogates various social conditions that might have contributed to a mysterious double murder in West Virginia in 1980.
Every year, vehicles on Brazil’s ever-expending road network hit over 400 million Brazilian animals, causing series declines in some species — and Brazil isn’t the only country expanding its infrastructure.
For many of us, road trips are also trips through the self.
The right tour guide can breathe life into the most boring stretch of highway.
One Arizonan narrates the two hour drive between Phoenix and Tucson.
“The highway was taken. They killed my business.”
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