For 12 years, Yiyun Li taught her writing students a story by Amy Bloom about the power, and limitations, of love. Confronting unbearable grief, she returned to it.
Tag: internal-great-read
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Telling the Truth About Mexico, and Dying for It
Drug violence and government corruption have put the country’s journalists in peril. In one town, reporters tried to fight back.
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Private Security Guards Have Become a Last Resort for Public Safety
In America’s overwhelmed downtowns, private security guards like Michael Bock have become the solution of last resort.
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The Lawyer Trying to Hold Gunmakers Responsible for Mass Shootings
Josh Koskoff’s legal victory against Remington has raised the possibility of a new form of gun control: lawsuits against the companies that make assault rifles.
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An Aristocrat’s Grandson, a Precious Desk and a Storage Unit in Queens
Christian Agostino von Hassell lost a trove of family heirlooms intertwined with European history when he encountered New York’s unforgiving laws governing storage lockers.