Category: Original
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SLR Classic Read: A Woman Burns
Jack Shafer: With the decline of capital punishment so too wanned the American execution story, pioneered by Lafcadio Hearn in 1876, romanticized by Ben Hecht throughout his journalistic career, and perfected by Norman Mailer. The grittiest example of the genre probably belongs to journalist Gene Fowler who filed the following deadline account of a Sing…
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In the Land of the Very Old, Part Two
Sam Toperoff’s final piece is a return to The Land of the Very Old.
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Vasiliy Lomachenko: Boxer, soldier, believer, traitor?
Vasiliy Lomachenko is one of Ukraine’s greatest boxers ever. But his relationship with his country perhaps undercuts the Western stereotype of a war-weary but united people.
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The Butterfly in the Prison Yard
A conservationist imprisoned while studying one of the world’s rarest cheetahs, Niloufar Bayani spent the last six years behind bars, fighting to preserve her humanity.
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Who Wants to Live on Women’s Land?
THE DYKES are expecting me. They are arranged in a loose circle on a grassy hill, a dozen or so elderly white lesbians perched on decrepit lawn chairs and frayed blankets. One woman is shirtless, and I try not to stare at her breasts, slung low against her milky stomach. “There you are!” Bethroot cries,…
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