Joël Kyaviro has overcome violence, poverty and the Ebola crisis to become the best cyclist ever to emerge from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. How far can he go?
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Edited by Mark Jannot
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Tuesday Night Lights
In which the author seeks glory and finds salvation racing at night on cross-country skis, on a golf course in the Boston suburbs.
Boston Magazine
Edited by Chris Vogel
Bearing Witness
In 1987, when I was 22, I saw something dark and disturbing go down in a vacant lot in Portland, Oregon. For 36 years, I couldn’t steel myself to write about it. Then, finally, I found the words. First place essay, 2024 National City and Regional Magazine Awards.
Portland Monthly
Edited by Benjamin Cassidy
The Bike Wanderer
Iohan Gueorguiev made beautiful films about his adventures cycling all over the world. In the eyes of his 100,000 YouTube followers, he had a dream job. So why, then, did things so wrong for him?
Bicycling
Edited by Leah Flickinger
Gold Medal winner, Adventure Travel, 2022 Lowell Thomas Awards
The Voyagers
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
Talk of the Town
What happened when I set out to discuss politics with my Trump-supporting neighbors. Published at the crest of the culture war, this story received over a million views.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell
The Monk’s Tale
Remembering my Uncle Bill, a Catholic monk and a scholar who left the church to spend his last 30 years in the French Pyrenees, tending his garden and translating Thucydides from Greek into Latin.
Outside
Edited by Elizabeth Hightower
The Last Naturalist
In a world where our time and attention are fractured into smaller and smaller bits, legendary biologist and runner Bernd Heinrich is a throwback, a man who has carved a deep grove in his patch of Maine woods.
Outside
Edited by Elizabeth Hightower.
Photo by Jesse Burke.
The Messenger
Once a basketball phenom and a hiphop deejay, Suhaib Webb is now a Muslim cleric with a vast following among millennials and also a bone to pick with Donald J. Trump. This cover story ran on the day of Trump’s first inauguration.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell.
Photographs by Pete Marovich.
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