In 1940, Chiune Sugihara found himself swamped by a desperate crowd of Jewish refugees. This is why he helped them.
Steve Almond: A Decade of Magical Thinking. Excerpt from The Rumpus
“One of the duties of the artist – not the only duty, but a central one – is to impel people to imagine the complexity of thought and feeling inside another person.”
GMP Contributors Reading in Boston on September 16
On Friday, Jeremy Adam Smith, Steve Almond, and Tomas Moniz will be reading in Cambridge.
Style Is a Difference, a Way of Doing It, a Way of Being Done
Charles Bukowski: “To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.”
Trim: From Bald Man to Mountain Man in 38 seconds
All hair belongs to Tom Offer-Westort.
Hockey Loses Another Player: Does Hockey Culture Need to Change?
Maneet Bhatia looks for patterns in the deaths of three hockey players this summer.
Picasso on a Mother’s Advice
‘Instead, I was a painter and became Picasso.’
On Intellectual Laziness, Collective Truths, and Storytelling
A virtual conversation between Tom Matlack, Steve Locke and Lisa Hickey that starts about race and jumps to the future of journalism and storytelling.
G’nite Irene
It’s over. Good night and good luck.
Irene On Her Way In
#Hurricane #Irene #North Carolina photo of Hurricane Irene descending into North Carolina. credit
WTF Haven’t They Seen Rain Before?
9am, Sunday Aug. 28, 2001. Massachusetts coast.
The Color of War: An Excerpt
For Memorial Day, we offer an excerpt from James Campbell’s moving new book “The Color of War”
Fenway Park: Home of The Red Sox and Now, Hurricane Irene
Text message and photo from Stephen Sheffield “Out my window onto pre-hurricane rain on Fenway Park and Kenmore Square”
MA Shoreline: Tracking the Sea and the Surge
Saturday, 7:30 pm. The storm center is still 500 miles away.
What Comes Out of the Media’s Witchhunt Against Men? No Good.
An example of how guys can suddenly go from “good” to “bad” in a heartbeat — one incident, based on unfounded truths and perpetuated stereotypes of men as sexual predators and purveyors of corporate greed.
Why We Need to Talk About Race
“Deliberate economic prohibitions were placed as obstacles in the path of those seeking lawful, gainful employment.”