The Greatest Hospitality Story Ever
While my uncle was dying from a rare cancer, he found solace in a hotel whose staff became a surrogate family.
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Outer Dark: A Cormac McCarthy Reading List
Saying goodbye to the legendary novelist.
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An investigation into a heinous (and lurid) crime. A look at the spirited world of competitive cheer. A visit to the world’s creepiest motel. An empathic eye on assisted dying. And the true planetary cost…
Inside Man
Gary Settle has helped dozens of federal prisoners get compassionate release. Will it ever be his turn to go home?
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Essays and Features
I Think I’m Going to Be Sick
The ride technology at amusement parks has become more sophisticated. For ride-goers prone to motion sickness, the outcome can be messy.
How to Survive a Car Crash in 10 Easy Steps
A journalist navigates a world forever changed by her traumatic brain injury.
Nathan
Language lessons with an extraordinary ape.
Cocooning
“Every testimony, every coming-out story, attempts a transformation of life. But narration is not life itself, exactly, or its transformation; it is a cocooning.”
Girl Genius
She will grow up and leave me and yet never leave me; she will be mine forever, a being I shaped.
The Buddy System
There is nothing quite like it. Surfing is a way of being connected to a deeper deep, an older old.
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Reading Lists
Return to the Saddle Club: A Reading List on Horse Girls
Celebrating the girls with an equine obsession.
Not Serious People: A ‘Succession’ Reading List
Great writing begets great writing — and the commentary around the HBO smash hit is some of the best around.
Tragedy in the Making: A Reading List About Unnatural Disasters
Six readings that interrogate the choices and forces behind so-called “natural disasters.”
Dead Moms Club: A Mother’s Day Reading List
“I recognize other dead mom kids almost instantly. They don’t pity — they laugh. They raise their hand for a high five. They respond with, ‘Mine too!’ and my whole body relaxes.”
There She Goes: A Reading List on Women Adventurers
The women you’ll find on top of the world.
Paging Dr. House: A Medical Mysteries Reading List
In the spirit of TV’s Holmesian healer, enjoy these diagnostic digressions.
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