Bill Donahue is a writer for Outside, Harper’s, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and more…
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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In the spring of 2015, oystermen in Washington state were poised to start a nerotoxin on the beleaguered oyster beds of Willapa Bay. But then this story broke. Public pressure ensued, and the oystermen caved—and scratched all plans to spray.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Edited by Emily Biuso. Photographs by Cameron Karsten.
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Arkansas poet Frank Stanford killed himself in 1978, at the age of 29. Today, novelist Michael Ondaatje calls his work “the most overlooked writing I know.” A look at a great Southern genius.
Men’s Journal
Edited by Larry Kanter. Photograph by Ginny Stanford.
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At age 5, Christian Thomas Geiger hiked the Appalachian Trail, all 2,180 miles of it, with his mother and stepdad. Was this an act of child abuse?
Backpacker
Edited by Dennis Lewon. Photographs by Brown W. Cannon III.
Gold Medal winner, Adventure Travel, 2016 Lowell Thomas Awards.
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Communing with the endangered forest and seabirds amid the emerald rainforests and precipitous coastal cliffs on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
Sunset
Edited by Bruce Anderson. Photograph by Kamil Bialous.
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A return to singer Kurt Cobain’s hometown, Aberdeen, Washington, 20 years after his suicide.
Sunset
Edited by Nino Padova. Photographs by John Clark.
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On the cusp of the 2014 World Cup, a look the Mexican national soccer team, in all its sorrow and anguish.
2014 ESPN FC World Cup Guide
Edited by Rebecca Nordquist.
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Until he died at age 71, while rowing on a lake in Maine, my college cross country and track coach, Jim Wescott was a mentor and sensei to hundreds of athletes. Here’s an account of what it was like to run for him.
Colby Magazine
Edited by Gerry Boyle.
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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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