“In 2015, I spent an intense, hilarious, and occasionally challenging week in the Bahamas with the legendary Hoosiers basketball coach, who more than lived up to his reputation.”
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The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat
“China has invested heavily in an armada of far-flung fishing vessels, in part to extend its global influence. This maritime expansion has come at grave human cost.”
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Catch and Release
“Not everyone gets to publish their first book alongside their mentor.”
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Working on the Edge: A Reading List About Extreme Jobs
A livelihood is not a life—yet many risk the latter in order to create the former.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week’s installment features stories by Lee van der Voo, Adam Gopnik, Surabhi Ranganathan, Masha Udensiva-Brenner, and Mikey O’Connell.
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The True Cost of Tuna: Marine Observers Dying at Sea
“Harassment of marine observers aboard fishing vessels is one of the industry’s worst-kept secrets.”
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Hate Speech on the Bitterroot
“For reasons I still don’t understand, I told almost no one about the incident at Poker Joe. After all, why taint the hundreds of memories I have of that treasured place with one disgraceful episode? The river there is handsome in all seasons. Our family has picnicked there, swum there, skipped stones, drunk wine. It’s […]
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In Hot Pursuit of STS-50, High Seas Scofflaw
What’s in the hold, captain? Oh nothing, just tonnes upon tonnes of illegal Chilean bass — nothing to see here!
Posted inFeature, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
The Poke Paradox
Where culinary bliss meets environmental peril, and how to solve America’s poke problem.
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The Fish That Gave Too Much
The history of colatura — a fermented anchovy-based sauce produced in Italy — goes back millennia. Now, overfishing and rapidly warming waters threaten its future.