Convenience Store Woman By Longreads Feature If the convenience store and Japanese society are so similar, why can Keiko Furukura function in one and not the other?
Ancestor Work In Street Basketball By Onaje X. O. Woodbine Feature The basketball court is a place where young black men feel comfortable mourning death, but are there crucial elements missing from their grieving practices?
Long Live the Oddly Charming Poetry of the Mail-Order Catalog By Ben Huberman Highlight Hammacher Schlemmer, which publishes America’s longest-running catalog, still takes its product descriptions seriously.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Value Meals By Michelle Weber Highlight Sorry you never won a million dollars; hope you at least got a fresh batch of fries.
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things By Michelle Weber Highlight Scientists knew how serious climate change is. Politicians knew. Energy companies knew. The U.S. was ready to act, and then we… didn’t.
On Not Being Able to Read By Tajja Isen Feature In law school, they told me I wouldn’t be able to read anymore. That the pleasure of the text, like a lover in a non-law degree, would slowly grow opaque to me.
The Life-Changing Magic of Getting In Line at 5AM By Michelle Weber Highlight Japan is committed to waiting: its language includes the phrase gyouretsu no dekiru mise: “restaurants that have very long lines.”
Dog Cloning: Controversial and Downright Creepy By Krista Stevens Highlight A clone is not a clone, it’s a twin born at a different time — one that is only ever about 85 percent the same as the original.
‘Country Music … Was Anything BUT Pure’: An Interview with Bill Malone and Tracey Laird By Will Hermes Feature
The Future of Decisions By Catherine Cusick Highlight If humans can’t decide, “the future of life will be decided at random.”
Ancestor Work In Street Basketball By Onaje X. O. Woodbine Feature The basketball court is a place where young black men feel comfortable mourning death, but are there crucial elements missing from their grieving practices?
What should we do this weekend, go to the movies or sail a handmade raft to Polynesia? By Michelle Weber Highlight
A British Seaweed Scientist Is Revered in Japan as ‘The Mother of the Sea’ By Longreads Feature Kathleen Drew-Baker died never having set foot in Japan, and never knowing what an impact her research would make. Plus, how to build a lazy bed, how to cook Irish blancmange, and other surprising seaweed stories.
