The Atlantic
The Last Night Out
The virus pulled back the curtain on our fraught relationships.
8 min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
What Takes Our Breath Away
An undertaker reflects on the one thing death can’t steal: our stories.
7 min |
June 2020
The Atlantic
The Special Child
In his unsettling trilogy about a possibly divine boy, J. M. Coetzee asks how we recognize the truth when it enters the world.
10 min |
June 2020
Russian Life
Food & Drink
Babushka’s Victory Cake
4 min |
May/June 2020
Russian Life
Under Review
Under Review
4 min |
May/June 2020
The Atlantic
The Secret of Scooby-Doo's Enduring Appeal
Why on earth has the formulaic series, which debuted half a century ago, outlasted just about everything else on television?
9 min |
May 2020
Russian Life
The Beauties
I. I remember when I was still in high school in the fifth or sixth level, I traveled with my grandfather from the village of Bolshaya Krepkaya in the Don region to Rostov-on Don.
10+ min |
March/April 2020
Russian Life
Petrov Goes Back to School
The Sheshurino school was shut down on the very cusp of the New Year.
5 min |
March/April 2020
Russian Life
Russian Chronicles
The Case Against Foreign Lit
10+ min |
March/April 2020
Russian Life
A Village School
Paganism is alive and well here in the Mari El Republic.
10+ min |
March/April 2020
Russian Life
Northern Wood Saving Forgotten Churches
Just before sunset, a large, modern bus stopped in the quiet village of Saminsky Pogost. About three dozen women (along with a nun and several men) stepped out onto the dusty, sandy road.
10+ min |
March/April 2020
Russian Life
The Patty Shop
Jolting along mud-choked roads, sending up spurts of brownish ooze, the district bus is clambering up and down the humpbacked hillocks.
6 min |
January/February 2020
Russian Life
Space Dogs
The canine cosmonauts of the soviet space program
7 min |
January/February 2020
Russian Life
The End Of The World*
In the summer of 2010, on the island of Bolshoy Zhuzhmuy in the White Sea, the shortwave radio crackled.
10+ min |
January/February 2020
Reason magazine
Errol Morris Is Fascinated by and Terrified of Steve Bannon
The decorated filmmaker didn’t expect the dramatic reaction to his “toxic” documentary about Trump’s former aide-de-camp.
10+ min |
March 2020
Mother Jones
All The Rage
Dan Crenshaw declared war on cancel culture. But who’s really getting canceled?
10+ min |
January/February 2020
World Literature Today
Cross-Cultural Romance with Global Itinerary
A Conversation with Sarah Ladipo Manyika
10+ min |
Winter 2020
World Literature Today
Almaty's Changing Musical Rule Book
Traveling across central Asia, Nicholas Pritchard discovers musical acts of dissent in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
9 min |
Winter 2020
Cobblestone American History Magazine for Kids
The Final Piece
The dark green color in the map depicts the land that was the Gadsden Purchase.
2 min |
January 2020
The Atlantic
The View From Inside the Bubble
Drawn into the tech world, a 20-something watches herself get seduced by a myopic mission.
9 min |
January - February 2020
The Atlantic
Retreat, Christian, Soldiers
Feeling out of step with the mores of contemporary American life, members of a conservative-Catholic group have built a thriving community in rural Kansas, one centered on faith and family. Could their flight from mainstream society be a harbinger for the nation?
10+ min |
January - February 2020
The Atlantic
Before Zuckerberg, Gutenberg
Anyone who thinks we’ve now grasped what the internet has in store for us should revisit what the printing press unleashed.
8 min |
January - February 2020
New York magazine
Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid's Tale arrived
The Handmaid’s Tale arrived.
10+ min |
November 25 - December 8, 2019
Russian Life
The Things They Carry
WOMEN’S HANDBAGS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A MYSTERY TO ME.
10 min |
November/December 2019
Russian Life
The Last Soviet-Americans
In order to get from the center of the Black Sea port of Odessa to that city’s best stretch of beach, you ride for 40 minutes on a tram.
10 min |
November/December 2019
Russian Life
Grandpa Cuckoo
Vaska Solovyov, nicknamed “Cuckoo” because he stuttered whenever he said “coo-coo-could…,” was puzzled. And the puzzle was how to come up with the money he needed to throw a shindig.
6 min |
November/December 2019
Russian Life
The War To End All Wars Ends
Only to become a war of a different sort in Russia
10+ min |
November/December 2019
Russian Life
The Story Behind An Inscription
Vladimir Lvovich Burtsev (1862-1942) was an ardent opponent of monarchism, Bolshevism, and Nazism.
10+ min |
November/December 2019
Cobblestone American History Magazine for Kids
A Democratic Influence
Look on the back of a one-dollar bill, and you will find the Great Seal of the United States.
5 min |
November/December 2019
The Atlantic
Books – Boy, Uninterrupted
Ben Lerner, portraitist of talkative men, explores the roots of white male rage.
10 min |