Moving into the next year, lifting up quality journalism―specifically quality journalism written by women and members of other marginalized groups―will be all the more vital. Round out your year in reading with this excellent collection of 29 standout pieces of writing and reporting by some of our best
One thing that’s worse than your friend who’s really into bouldering? Professional commentators at bouldering competitions. ↩︎ posted Dec. 3, 2016 We like a good skateboard video as much as the next person, but especially when it takes place in the snow. ↩︎ posted Dec. 2, 2016 At least it
A short profile of Finnish freediver Johanna Nordblad, who holds the world record for a 50-meter dive under ice. Brings to mind Marten Lange’s photographs of crows. ↩︎ posted Dec. 2, 2016 With Dead Bookstore, artist Ben Pieratt deconstructs old books and puts together interesting pairings and collages. He
A supercut of Thanksgiving dinners from movies, all of them hopefully much worse than yours this year. ↩︎ posted Nov. 23, 2016 My children have never sat down to a proper Thanksgiving dinner in my household, but we have an annual tradition of restaurant leftovers—capon, mash, gravy and pie—at
The question is whether the image of Mrs. Clinton, composed and gracious in defeat, persevering through pain, will inspire women to try again? How Hillary handles pain. ↩︎ New York Times, posted Nov. 10, 2016 “This telenovela is still in development.” Trump did better with Hispanics than Bob Dole in 1996
How to make the Nasty Woman: An election night cocktail. See also: Life lessons from Sasha Petraske’s posthumously released book Regarding Cocktails. ↩︎ posted Nov. 8, 2016 At this, point there are five equally-likely outcomes in this election: 1) Your candidate wins. 2)You take up smoking again. 3)
Riveting story of a diver who survived in an air pocket for two days after being trapped in an underwater cave. ↩︎ BBC, posted July 18, 2017 The deadliest American maritime disaster in decades In case you wanted to know what a helicopter rescue at sea is like, this frightening long-
House Intelligence Committee Asks Obama to Just Say No House Intelligence Committee sends a bipartisan letter to President Obama urging him not to pardon Snowden, reminding him that he said in a news conference in 2013, “I don’t think Mr. Snowden was a patriot.” ↩︎ posted Sept. 16, 2016 The
In the 1660s, German alchemist Hennig Brand intended to turn urine into gold. But 1,500 gallons of dehydrated pee led him instead to discover phosphorus. From Wikipedia’s history of alchemy: “In the eyes of a variety of esoteric and Hermetic practitioners, alchemy is fundamentally spiritual. Transmutation of lead
A conversation with Sarah Hepola, author of the bestselling “Blackout,” about investigating the worst kind of memories—those you never had.
