Like major contagions throughout history, the new coronavirus causes fear as well as illness. The remedy for both, it turns out, is the same.

“At 54, after 30 years of marriage and two of loneliness, I went online to find a man and found Dean.”

A three-part essay on love, loss, and what comes in between.

James Wood on Saul Bellow:

One realizes, with a shock, that Bellow has taught one how to see and how to hear, has opened the senses. Until this moment one had not really thought of the looseness of a lightbulb filament, one had not heard the saliva bubbling in the harmonica, one had not seen well enough the nose pitted with black pores, and the demolition ball’s slow, heavy selection of its victims. A dozen good writers–Updike, DeLillo, others–can render you the window of a fish shop, and do it very well; but it is Bellow’s genius to see the lobsters “crowded to the glass” and their “feelers bent” by that glass–to see the riot of life in the dead peace of things.

A Florida family opted for restorative justice over the death penalty for the man who murdered their mom. What happened next made them question the very meaning of justice.

Looking for answers following a mysterious string of slayings and suicides at the base.

The search for what makes identical twins different.

A call for making a living with your hands.

Adult life for the autistic is littered with misunderstandings, anger, and group homes.

Two men entered the ring for their first professional boxing match. Only one survived.

A co-founder makes the case for government intervention.

The death of a high school football player and the life that has followed for the kid who made the hit.

In 1980, a bankrupt gambler came up with a plan to get his money back. He built an incredibly complex bomb, one that was impossible to defuse and that only he knew how to move, and snuck it into a Lake Tahoe casino with an extortion note demanding $3 million. Part of the plan worked. Part of it did not.

The battle for Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Cristo Redentor statue.

Visiting his daughter in San Francisco, the author longs for food delivery in Manhattan.

At 76, Atlanta’s Beverly “Guitar” Watkins still lives for the blues.

The Constitution offers two main paths for removing a President from office.

Life for a Muslim doctor in rural Minnesota before and after the election of Donald Trump.

A search for common ground.

On a newfound appreciation for the stroll.

For Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe, the work is just getting started.

Stephanie had cancer, until she didn’t.

There’s a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don’t want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: “You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.”

For 45 years, , Harmony Audio Video, has been my dad’s life: the reason he left home early every day, the reason he was chronically late to pick me up from school, the reason he didn’t take a single vacation for 25 years.