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"Do not despair of our present difficulties. We believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here."

“Do not despair of our present difficulties. We believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.”

—U.S. Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, 1936-1998
August 29, 2018
Avi Selk eulogizes the long life and too-soon death of Spider 16, and what she taught us

Avi Selk eulogizes the long life and too-soon death of Spider 16, and what she taught us

In his elegiac profile, the Washington Post general assignment reporter talks about finding gems in previously published work, and doing it all on deadline
July 18, 2018
Can you say ... Thanks, and we miss you?

Can you say … Thanks, and we miss you?

On Mister Rogers, Tom Junod and the art of reverence
July 13, 2018
Learning to see beyond first sight

Learning to see beyond first sight

Editor’s note: We are trying out a new feature. Call it writing practice (with a nod to Natalie Goldberg’s “Writing Down the Bones,” where I first encountered the term). Or…
June 28, 2018
Altered states of storytelling at the L.A. Times Festival of Books

Altered states of storytelling at the L.A. Times Festival of Books

Possbilities are vast, but in the current media climate, it is hard to feel complacent about the technological manipulation of reality when its potential disruption is so easy to imagine
May 1, 2018
5(ish) Questions for Michelle Mizner and Katie Worth and “The Last Generation"

5(ish) Questions for Michelle Mizner and Katie Worth and “The Last Generation”

The multimedia interactive about climate change in the Marshall Islands is compellingly told through the eyes of three children
April 26, 2018

“Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”

—Pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson
April 25, 2018
5(ish) Questions for Douglas Haynes and "Every Day We Live Is the Future"

5(ish) Questions for Douglas Haynes and “Every Day We Live Is the Future”

The author spent nearly 10 years on his project to show climate change in the extreme micro, telling the stories of two Nicaraguan women
April 24, 2018
5(ish) Questions: Richard Marosi and "Without a Country"

5(ish) Questions: Richard Marosi and “Without a Country”

The longtime border reporter for the Los Angeles Times talks about his prize-winning series about deported immigrants: "They're human beings. They're suffering. They have hard lives."
January 30, 2018
Want to read some of the best literary journalism of 2017? We've got you covered

Want to read some of the best literary journalism of 2017? We’ve got you covered

A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure
December 22, 2017