Bill Donahue is a writer for Outside, Harper’s, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and more…
How do you escape Joseph Stalin? In June 1945, Soviet naval mechanic Valeri Minakov slipped away from the coast of Siberia in a small, homemade walrus-skinned boat, intent on reaching Alaska. He suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. His six-year-old son, Oleg, was sitting in the bow.
The Atavist
Edited by Jonah Ogles
New research reveals that iconic long-distance hiker Earl Shaffer, long credited with the first through hike of the Appalachian Trail, wasn’t telling the truth about his walk. Is he still a hero?
Backpacker
Edited by Zoe Gates
A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.
The Atavist
Edited by Jonah Ogles
In Jay, Maine, the paper mill has been the lynch pin of the economy since the 1880s. And now it may close.
The Boston Globe Magazine
Edited by Michael Fitzgerald and Francis Storrs
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A deep dive into the culture and magic and pain of three countries that Trump maligned with an obscenity–Haiti, El Salvador, and Liberia.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell
The joys and agonies of maintaining the picket fence at my family’s ancient home in New Hampshire.
Yankee
Edited by Ian Aldrich. Illustration by Cindy Rizza.
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Of the hundred slaves to toil for President George Washington, Ona Judge was the only one to escape and tell her story.
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Edited by Ali Castleman.
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Lon Myers was the greatest American runner of the nineteenth century and also a Sephardic Jew. In 1882, he ran a series of three one-on-one footraces against England’s best runner, Walter George, at the Polo Grounds, in New York City.
Runner’s World
Edited by Christine Fennessy. Illustrations by Bruce Emmet.
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Searching for the ghost of Russian novelist Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41) in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Photographs by Oleg Gritskevich.
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