Weather the Storm
Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
Yet Another Once-in-a-Lifetime Storm
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Rebecca Solnit on pulling together in the wake of natural disaster.
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Naomi Klein examines the economy of catastrophe.
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Sierra Crane Murdoch traces the effects of climate change through one family’s choice to leave the Northern Mariana Islands after Typhoon Yutu.
Eyes on the Prize
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Christopher Hitchens makes the case that the illustrious awards lost their luster as the twentieth century wore on.
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“As one notes the winners, it is impossible not to be reminded of the losers.”
Read “Which Scientists Win Nobel Prizes?” by George W. Gray
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“The very fact of these sneers and insults from well-placed individuals is an indication that the prize actually matters to them and to the literary field as a whole.”
Read “We Are the Champions” by James F. English
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Selections from The White Book by Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Eyes to the Skies
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Chasing the aurora borealis in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
Read “Thing of Ether” by Sallie Tisdale
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The then-groundbreaking science behind the northern lights.
Read “The Aurora Borealis or Polar Light” by Elias Loomis
In Memoriam: Lore Segal
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“Segal has built up a body of work that probes how people come to know one another. Her writing blows sad and then joyful, warm then cool...She has managed to create a corpus of work that animates the whole world with the same bright voice.”
Read “Warm, Weird, Effervescent” by Madeleine Schwartz