Stunted No More
The pirate trails of Vancouver’s North Shore defined radical mountain biking for decades until authorities shut them down. Now the Shore is back—with official approval—but is it better or worse?
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Kenya Unpoached
Once-warring tribes are working together to protect critically endangered animals, with dramatically positive results
Deep Carve
Julie Goldstein’s woodcut prints are celebrations of women and water, but it’s the intricate stories beneath that give them power
Intro
Freedom arrives in stages. My first came in kindergarten, when I was allowed to walk home from school by myself, remembered mostly because I dawdled in the woods until my mother freaked out and came to find me, storm clouds of fear over her head. After that came learning to ride a bike. Then “just … Read more
The Man Who Cut Off His Toes
Peter Freuchen called himself a ‘vagrant Viking’ but that only begins to tell his story
Etymology: Purple Blob
There’s nothing subtle about purple. It leans longingly toward the garishness of pink but is restrained by the subsonic throb of black; it is demanding but not shrill. “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Alice Walker wrote, and that may … Read more