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“When I’ve had courage, I often lacked the healthy choices. When I’ve had healthy choices, I often lacked courage. Ending unhealthy transactional relationships and opening ourselves to radical possibilities is one way we effectively heal ourselves and others in America.”
"For example, I remember reading Hemingway and loving his work so much—but then at some point, realizing that my then-current life (or parts of it) would not be representable via his prose style. Living in Amarillo, Texas, working as a groundsman at an apartment complex, with strippers for pals around the complex, goofball drunks recently laid off from the nuclear plant accosting me at night when I played in our comical country band, a certain quality of West Texas lunatic-speak I was hearing, full of way off-base dreams and aspirations—I just couldn’t hear that American in Hem-speak. And that kind of moment is gold for a young writer: the door starts to open, just a crack."
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah is an essayist. Her 2017 GQ piece “A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof” won the National Magazine Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
“I remember feeling like ‘you’re playing chess with evil, and you gotta win.’ Because this is the most terrible thing I’d ever seen. And I was so mad. I still get so mad. Words aren’t enough. I’m angry about it. I can’t do anything to Dylann Roof, physically, so this is what I could do.”
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What led to the death of a 5-year-old boy, “the Everychild in the state system.”
A cultural history of Bitcoin and what happened when the nascent virtual currency began to be covered by the mainstream media.
A profile of the D.O.C., the rapper’s rapper, who ghostwrote for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
When it comes to sweatshops and child labor, your $7 H&M gym shorts aren’t really the problem (or the solution).
Pubs are closing all over London. One Camden establishment, the Golden Lion, decided to fight it.
A profile of cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter, who has spent the last 30 years trying to replicate the human mind.
On the legendary journalist and the book he never finished.
On the discovery of a billion dollars worth of artwork looted by Nazis in the cramped apartment of a Munich recluse.
Three primary reasons: A desire for vengeance, the sanitization of executions and, ironically, the reliability of DNA evidence.
On a Victorian-era murder case, and the novel it inspired.
On the legal history of LSD in America and a researcher who never gave up on the drug’s promise.
Ripping out the guts of an “utterly preposterous document”: the Starr Report on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
The politics behind the anti-trend trend known as “Normcore” turn out to be as conservative as ever.
The author discovers devastating secrets while going through her late father’s belongings.
Yeah, you’ve seen that headline before. The difference? This time it’s not journalists trying to do the saving. It’s Google.
Slumdog Millionaire, the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and the arrival of “New India” in the American imagination.
On the elegance and utility of the rice cooker.
A profile of Rafael Pérez, an infamously corrupt LAPD officer and the inspiration behind the Vic Mackey character on The Shield.
“Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has.”
The director of The Exorcist visits the Vatican’s 91-year-old in-house exorcist in Rome.
James Regan swindled his way through the city’s monied classes. The problem was, he seemed to believe his own lies.
