Why we need to change how we talk about how animals grieve

Kris Kristofferson

I, for instance, elect to walk on certain streets, not others. The elevator doors slide open, and there’s one man inside: I evaluate his size against mine, calculating how well, if I had to, I could fight him off. I check the backseat of my car before getting in, just to make sure no one’s waiting there. I don’t leave my drink unattended. By R. O. Kwon.

The question is no longer whether or not we are going to fail, but how are we going to comport ourselves in the era of failure? By Dahr Jamail.

When you live inside of your shame, everything you see is inadequate and embarrassing. By Heather Havrilesky.

Singapore, like every big city, has been overrun with new car service apps. By Yoolim Lee.

When fighting on behalf of the father you love, who do you become? By Beth Kephart.

"The day I found out I was pregnant, I installed an app on my phone that guesstimated — in exclusively fruit and vegetable comparisons — the size of my might-be child. My pregnancy made it from the size of a sweet pea to the size of a blueberry, and during that time I kept a wire-bound journal with “Sweet Pea” written on the cover." By Kristen.

The crew of the Fitzgerald endured a bruising operational tempo in the months leading up to the fatal collision that left little time for training. But despite all that, they saved their ship and got her back home. By Geoff Ziezulewicz.

"She stared at a single set of footprints in the snow ahead of her. She’d been following faint tracks in the snow all day but hadn’t given them much thought because so many people climb the Jewell Trail. She fixated on the tracks and realized they had been made by a pair of sneakers." By Ty Gagne.

The Dramatics

What happens after the sun goes down. By Anne Boyer.

Deepa Rajan

The group takes a selfie, dubbing it their last photo together. The house next door is on fire. By Corina Knoll.

Lest we forget what? What exactly? And who is this “we?” By George Theodoridis.

When you live with chronic pain, choosing when and where to experience pain can be a gift, and an act of control. By Ace Ratcliff.

RocKwiz featuring Beth Hart

Decades after a risky Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets. By Raffi Khatchadourian.

Nowadays Weegee is regarded by most art critics as an artist of permanent significance, one whose work is thought all the more valuable precisely because, like the gangster movies of the ’30s that are mirrored in his crime-scene photos, it was created for commercial purposes. By Terry Teachout.

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