Women We Read This Week
1. Rachel Aviv’s “The Trauma of Facing Deportation” for The New Yorker A deeply disturbing, fascinating account of uppgivenhetssyndrom, or “resignation syndrome,” an illness striking refugee…
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Not an Ike and Tina Thing
He broke the news in the morning, on Labor Day weekend, daylight thinning the walls of our tent at 9am.
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Megan Greenwell’s Seven Sports Journalists
Part of me objects to the very existence of a list that considers sports reporting separately from any other kind. Too many people still consider sports sections the toy departments of newspapers and magazines, a frivolity for people looking to avoid “real news.”
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Women We Read This Week
Eva Holland’s “Wilderness Women” on SB Nation How could we begin the first WWRTW of the year without repping our own Eva Holland? Especially…
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A Year of Vela
Today, September 6, 2012, we at Vela celebrate the first anniversary of the magazine.There is much to come, but before we get to all of…
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Three Kites on the Ice
The water in the fjord was flat and clear, the pale, sheer blue of a mountain river. Icebergs were scattered across its surface…
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The Air-Conditioned Traveler
It was December 2001. I was visiting Malaysia – more specifically, on this particular afternoon I was visiting the covered Central Market…
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Desert Solitaire Blues
I picked up the book on my first morning in Utah, in a small Bureau of Lands Management visitors center on the side of Highway 89.
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Mush!
There’s a story that circulates in Haines, Alaska, a small town hemmed in by year-round snowcaps and cold, clear, fish-rich waters on the northern edge of the Inside Passage.
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Acapulco Nights
I don’t like to say that I’ve been to Mexico. It’s not a lie – I have spent a small amount of time on Mexican soil.
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In the Bush
On the other end of the line my mother’s phone was ringing, but the familiar tones sounded distant, thin and faded.
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