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Newsletters / #025 In Case You Missed It

Human / Nature.

July 2022

  • Clare Magneson

    Honest Like a Bear Attack

    Things to say instead of "Please don't die."

    Issue 77

  • Clinton Crockett Peters

    Our World, Ourselves

    As wilderness disappears, what happens to nature writing?

    Issue 76

  • Anjoli Roy

    Roxy and the Worm Box

    “Are you ready to get your hands dirty?” she asked, pointing to my little gold rings.I pulled them off and stuck them in my pocket. I forced a smile, breathing through my mouth, and nodded yes.Roxy
  • Steven Church

    Trip to the Zoo

    In September 2012, twenty-five-year-old David Villalobos abruptly dived from a monorail ride into the Siberian tiger pit at the Bronx Zoo. In True Story #2, Steven Church retraces (some of) Villalobos’s steps in an attempt to understand the impulse that drives him—and others like him—to get close to a predator.

    True Story, Issue #02

  • Thérèse d’Auria Ryley

    Even in a Concrete Jungle

    A sociologist finds an unexpected essay in a city park

    Issue 61

  • Charging lions

    Chester F. Phillips

    Charging Lions

    From the corral, the calls sounded again and again—loud, deranged by worry, a desperate mother’s cries of distress.

    Issue 40 / True Stories, Well Told

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