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My Dad, the Demigod

“Henry Wismayer lost his dad to cancer at the age of four. He thinks through the ways it has shaped his life.”

Featuring stories from Hannah Dreier, Jason Fagone and Julie Johnson, Shruti Swamy, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and Kristen Arnett.

“Scenes from a life in basketball.”

“On poetry and mourning.”

“’We know where she works,’ their faces said, but it felt less like a judgement and more like an acknowledgement.”

“The action star has gone to great lengths to avoid the press for more than a decade. But maybe our writer could track him down anyway?”

“Across this fractured region, informal networks rule. So if you need to send something, ask someone who’s already going that way.”

“A grieving daughter channels family memories along the Nueces.”

On sisterhood, addiction, and family ghosts.

“Two lives bound into one story by immigration and illness.”