"Nature writing after everyone stopped paying attention."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
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Stories on the color orange, the data center rush, a local hero, the AI labour takeover, and a boy dinner subreddit.
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• Carolyn Wells
Inside the Subreddit Where Men Share Their Dinners—And Their Most Intimate Feelings
"A months-old subreddit called r/BoyDinnerDiares has drawn over 4 million users and become a place for men to spill their guts. Why there and why now?"
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• Seyward Darby
The People of Utah vs. Kevin O’Leary
"Mr. Wonderful wanted to build the world’s largest data center. The neighbors had other ideas."
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• Seyward Darby
The True Cost of Rape in America
"The horrific story of Jane Doe and the Cornell Seven has spurred nationwide outrage and revived contentious debates around prevention and education. But one question is still going unasked: Who really pays after a sexual assault?"
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
She Died at the San Diego Border. A Surveillance Ccamera 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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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
How AI Replaced Me
"An edtech worker's account of what got left behind."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Orange Era
"First it was a fire, then it was a color, and before too long it became a regime unto itself."
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‘The Eels Were Climbing Out of the Water to Die ’: Why Did Every Fish in This Idyllic Lake Perish Overnight?
"Furnace Brook in East Sussex was home to carp, tench, bream, roach and trout—and 15 trailer-loads had to be buried."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris
The beloved video game Tetris has a fascinating, complicated history. While the Tetris Company (TTC) claims exclusive rights to the geometric pieces at the heart of the game, known as tetrominoes, history shows that the Russian engineer and game designer duo behind TTC did not, in fact, own them. In this excerpt of Soviet Blocks: […]
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The Unforeseen Something
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Toadstools and Toxins
"When I found the mushroom Amanita muscaria being sold in candy wrappers, I uncovered legal loopholes, dangerous dosages and more."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Behind His Great Novels, an Unbearable Family Secret
"The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried."
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• Carolyn Wells
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
"I began to do what I do — reading and writing and thinking about misogyny—because of my dismay at how girls and women are treated on campus, and at other college campuses across America."
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Recommending notable stories from Caitlin Dickerson, Marci Wilding, Tiffany Huang, Nick Paumgarten, and Chabeli Carrazana.
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
The Work
"One year spent on the independent professional wrestling circuit in the Pacific Northwest, where the only thing that’s faked is the outcome of the match."
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• Carolyn Wells
Journalist Evan Gershkovich: My 491 Days as Putin’s Political Prisoner
"Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter in Russia, thought he was meeting a source. Instead he was arrested for spying."
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• Carolyn Wells
I Lost Myself When I Lost Hong Kong
"If returning to America was like getting on a lifeboat, why did I feel like I was drowning?"
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• David Alm
A Place Among the Fiddlers
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Hockey Dads and Hockey Sons
"Parenting is a practice. You learn from your mistakes and then repeat them anyway."
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• Krista Stevens
A Record of Breath
"Archiving a life at the edge of disposal."
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• Seyward Darby
The Babies Left Behind in America
"The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis."
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You Should’ve Said Something
"I had to do everything the jurors did—sit in every court session, examine each piece of evidence, look out from the jury box every day at a man accused of murder—but I wouldn’t participate in the deliberation unless two jurors dropped out."
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• Seyward Darby
Dusklands
"Growing up in the shadow of genocide."
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• Kanya Kanchana
Lost and Found: A Reading List on Labyrinths, Mazes, and Wayfinding
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• Krista Stevens
Oh, How Lucky We Are
"Sandy West believed that embracing what we cannot understand is the pathway to enlightenment, and that time on her beloved Ossabaw was the best way to learn that lesson."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
A Graveyard Shift with Britain’s Gen Z Undertakers
"Could apprentice undertakers solve youth unemployment?"
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In this edition: the cuckoo’s nest, fruitful work, keys and locks, commander in fief; perfect sound forever, and more.
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• Carolyn Wells
A Tale of Two Trap Houses: Being Cuckooed Ruined My Friend’s Life—But Did It Then Help Save Him?
"Drug gangs have moved off Britain’s streets and into vulnerable people’s homes. Addicts like my friend are easy targets, but the reality can be more complicated than it seems."