An unjust police killing. Nature reclamation in the fossil fuel era. Surviving a bear attack. The underbelly of the antiquities trade. And for a well-earned dessert, the legacy of the world’s first breakout video game. 1. Police Killed His Son. Prosecutors Charged the Teen’s Friends With His Murder Meg O’Connor | The Appeal & Phoenix […]
Lacy M. Johnson
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What Survives
“It’s normal to want to repair what’s broken, folly to repair what breaks us and keeps on breaking.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Matt Hamilton and Garrett Therolf, Lacy M. Johnson, Devin Kelly, Max Bell, and Rainesford Stauffer.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes
Memorializing a Glacier and Hoping for the Future
Iceland holds a funeral for Okjökull, once a glacier, now “dead ice.”
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How to Mourn a Glacier
Essayist Lacy M. Johnson attends a funeral in Iceland for “Okjökull” — once a glacier 16 square kilometers in surface, and now “only a small patch of slushy gray ice.” In personifying shrinking masses of ice — key geographical features of the area, and the planet — officials hope to impress upon people the dire […]
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Lacy M. Johnson on Rejecting the Need to Be Liked
“As a woman, I have been raised to be nurturing, to care for others feelings’ and wellbeing often at the expense of my own.”
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Story
Speak Truth to Power
We must speak truth to the power of all that threatens to keep women and girls silent in the face of sexual violence.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Essays & Criticism
Speak Truth to Power
We must speak truth to the power of all that threatens to keep women and girls silent in the face of sexual violence.