Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Poster"
A childhood poster catalyzes complex doubts about a marriage.
Death Surrounds Her
Emily Rostkowski is an oncology nurse and cancer survivor herself. But now, like so many other healthcare workers, she spends her days in the center of the coronavirus storm.
Ordinary Insanity
America’s fetishization of reproductive risk is driving mothers mad.
Eva Holland is a freelance journalist and a correspondent for Outside. Her new book is Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear.
“I'm less caught up in my freelance career anxieties every day that this goes on. Maybe I'll become a paramedic, who knows? Magazines I write for are already shutting down because of this. You can only freak out so much before you decide that if you end up having to find a new way to make a living, that's what you'll do.”
Thanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.
The Hate Store
How Amazon’s self-publishing arm became a haven for white supremacists.
The Impossible Profession
The life and work of a Manhattan psychoanalyst.
The Highland Park Drug Ring
How did a mother of 10 and a Plano cop wind up pushing pills in the Park Cities?
King of Comedy
The making of Caddyshack.
How Beto Calavera Got His Name
The families Dodger Stadium removed.
A Patient’s Story
How New Jersey’s first coronavirus patient survived.
“It Was Gone Overnight”
One restaurant’s struggle to weather the pandemic.
A Missionary on Trial
Renée Bach went to Uganda to save children—but many in her care died. Was she responsible?
The Maine Farmer Saving the World's Rarest Heirloom Seeds
An amateur seed bank has rescued countless rare varieties, but now it may be running out of time.
If I Wrote a Coronavirus Episode
Tina Fey, Mike Schur, and 35 more TV writers on what their characters would do in a pandemic.
“When can we really rest?”
More migrants than ever are crossing the Colombia-Panama border to reach the U.S. Five days inside the Darién Gap, one of the most dangerous journeys in the world.
The Soul Man Who Walked Away
A profile of Bill Withers at 76.
The Burning Problem of America’s Sugar Cane Growers
There’s a hidden cost to the way Florida’s farmers bring in the sugar crop. Just visit the hospitals and measure the climate impact.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Do I Amuse You?"
A troubled professor's obsession with "Goodfellas."
‘We just made history’: The Story of Hockey’s First Ever Team Trans
How a group of 17 trans athletes came together last November to make history.
Blood Will Tell
The murder of Mickey Bryan stunned her small Texas town. Then her husband, Joe Bryan, was charged with killing her. Did he do it, or had there been a terrible mistake?
Joe Bryan was released from prison earlier this week.
I Know The Day We Got It
A week in the life of a family weathering the coronavirus.
"It’s a Razor’s Edge We’re Walking"
Around the world, more than 40 teams are working on a vaccine for Covid-19. How one doctor is approaching the most urgent quest of his life.
Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic. His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End."
“Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal issue, those pieces feel like they’re about things that need to get solved in timeframes of, say, months or years. ... But now I’m writing pieces that are affecting people’s choices and lives, and hopefully the direction of the entire country, on an hourly basis. The changes I hope to see, I hope to see immediately. Like right now. And that does create a massive sense of urgency, a sense of pressing, incredibly high stakes. And it’s a burden.”
Thanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.
The Unravelling of a Dancer
Sharon Stern devoted herself to Butoh, a Buddhist-influenced Japanese dance. Did her mentor lead her down a dangerous path?
Greta's World
A profile of climate activist Greta Thunberg.
