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Highways

Posted inNonfiction

In Pocahontas County, Deep Divisions and a Gruesome Discovery

by Longreads January 21, 2020December 30, 2022

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.

Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

Brazil’s Roads to Destruction

by Aaron Gilbreath December 9, 2019October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

The Ways of a Wandering Spirit

by Aaron Gilbreath May 20, 2019October 19, 2022

For many of us, road trips are also trips through the self.

Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

Forming Relationships with the Road: An Interview with Tom Zoellner

by Aaron Gilbreath January 30, 2019October 19, 2022

The right tour guide can breathe life into the most boring stretch of highway.

Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Viewing a Desert Highway Through Someone Else’s Eyes

by Aaron Gilbreath January 24, 2019October 19, 2022

One Arizonan narrates the two hour drive between Phoenix and Tucson.

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Look Inside the Small U.S. Towns That Will Be Crushed By the Trucking Revolution

by michelleweber July 18, 2017October 19, 2022

“The highway was taken. They killed my business.”

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