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# The Delacorte Review

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- [The Black Dahlia](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/09/10/the-black-dahlia/) - The Long, Strange History of Los Angeles' Coldest Cold Case
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Thirty](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/09/08/year-of-fear-chapter-thirty/) - Will western Pennsylvania become a string of ghost towns?
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Seven](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/03/25/year-of-fear-chapter-seven/) - Fear and Loathing in the Time of Coronavirus
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Three](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/02/28/year-of-fear-chapter-three/) - Red Streets v. Blue Streets in McKeesport
- [Year of Fear, Chapter One](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/02/12/year-of-fear-chapter-one/) - The Mystery of Caroline County, Virginia
- [The Year of Fear](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/02/10/the-year-of-fear-2/) - Four American Towns on the Way to November
- [Prison as a Haven](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/11/07/prison-as-a-haven/) - In the opioid wars, inside can feel safer than the perils of the street.
- [I Had a Friend. He Dreamed of Israel.](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/10/28/i-had-a-friend-he-dreamed-of-israel/) - After 35 years, a visit to a grave, and to a different country.
- [We wondered...](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/25/we-wondered/) - Where are you at home in the world? Five writers came to us with stories about home that we'll be publishing over the coming weeks. Home, these stories remind us, is where you need to be. Welcome to The Delacorte Review.
- [#1 Sonja Sharp](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/28/1-sonja-sharp/)
- [Consider the Can](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/consider-the-can/) - You drink your beer; you toss the container. Do you know it comes back? How economics and design, laws and lobbying, craft and ingenuity, recycling theory and recycling myth, the nature of aluminum and the nature of capitalism, and grueling, endless, human labor all shape the can’s strange and eternal circle of life.
- [In-Between Worlds](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2024/06/04/in-between-worlds/) - Navigating identity and belonging as Chinese adoptees in the West. Eight days after Maggie Yu Mattackal was born, someone found her at the gates of Yiyang, a city in Hunan province, China. It was in early March 2001. Someone had affixed a note with a birthdate on it: February 23. Of the circumstances surrounding her
- [Breastfeeding Grief](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2026/05/05/breastfeeding-grief/) - Miriam Wasser - May 5, 2026 - When my baby suddenly refused to nurse, I fell into despair
- [Becoming Me](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2025/11/11/becoming-me/) - The experience of pregnancy assumes that you're a woman. It also sassumed that the person who got you pregnant is a man PART I: THE DISCOVERY Aryn’s mind is racing as they pedal furiously down the road, the tires of their bike crunching over the fall leaves scattered across the pavement. The cold Ohio
- [Daughter of the Revolution, Reborn at 72](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2025/05/22/daughter-of-the-revolution-reborn-at-72/) - At the age of 72, Wang Li finally decided to live for herself. Photo Credit: Huiyee Chiew Death Wang Li and her husband never said the words “I love you” to each other in the 44 years they were married. Living in Shanghai, China with their adult son, the daily routines of the elderly couple
- [The Heroines Who Take On The Harm](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2025/02/25/the-heroines-who-take-on-the-harm/) - Against all odds, the struggle to keep addicts alive
- [The Man Who Sang Skibbereen](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2025/02/12/the-man-who-sang-skibbereen/) - I first met Gerry Sullivan on Election Day. I was in Broad Channel. It’s a strange world out there. Broad Channel is on the edge of the city, surrounded by water. I had come to be near the water. I needed to get away. Gerry was standing guard in the polling station. He said, “I
- [ Four minutes, 54 seconds, 265 milliseconds](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2025/02/04/four-minutes-54-seconds-265-milliseconds/) - He’s done this thousands of times. Thousands of five-minute increments of quiet diligence. He’s playing a video game, Super Mario Brothers, and he’s playing it as fast as he can. Hundreds of fans and competitors are watching. Orange and cyan pixels flash in front of him. He’s the fastest in the world. But that doesn’t
- [When Hard Rock Came to the USSR](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2024/11/19/when-hard-rock-came-to-the-ussr/) - On a Wing and a Prayer - “Did you bring the things I requested?” Kenny had already been in Moscow for two weeks for pre-production, and it was obviously starting to get to him. His long hair was messy, his beard scruffy and he looked exhausted sitting behind the battered metal desk. “Yup” I said, pulling a bag from my suitcase. I
- [A Tale of Two Protests](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2024/05/09/a-tale-of-two-protests/) - A post-Tiananmen Square generation fights for Chinese democracy from abroad – only to face dissent from their young successors On the night of Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, Zhou Fengsuo stood in Times Square, doing what he did in Tiananmen Square 34 years ago: trying to make his message heard. Back then, he had the backing
- [DR/Lab](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2024/05/09/dr-lab-2/) - A Showcase for Original Works of Narrative Nonfiction by Students at the Columbia Journalism School
- [My Home Towns](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2024/05/29/my-home-towns/) - Why a Washington political journalist holds tight to her rural roots
- [Biography of an Embryo](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2024/04/30/biography-of-an-embryo/) - When Karin Jones and her husband finally decided to have a baby, they didn't expect to need an egg donor. And when they chose that egg donor, they didn't expect to start a lifelong relationship with a lovely, adventurous young woman and her parents. As this story unfolds, Karin tells of six lives intertwined, full of surprises and love.
- [Fire. Dog. Life. Ice](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2024/03/18/fire-dog-life-ice/) - Dog Sledding and Grieving on the Boundary Waters
- [War of Words](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2024/03/08/war-of-words/) - Ninety-one years ago, a group of McGill students created a satirical magazine to stoke controversy on campus. Their words would consume them whole. On a cold early March night, Ernie Crown was waiting by his window when he saw the car of Gerald Halpenny arrive. He noticed that three men were in the car, but
- [At the Laundromat](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2024/02/28/at-the-laundromat/) - “Sometimes, you get beat for a machine..." 7:15 a.m. on a Wednesday morning on the Upper West Side, licensed manual therapist Peter C. Green stared with intensity at his darks as they swished around and around in sudsy water, clockwise and anti-clockwise, anti-clockwise and clockwise. The surrounding washing machines buzzed monotonously as they no doubt
- [Fifteen Feet ](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2024/02/23/fifteen-feet/) - This is what a fifteen-foot wall of water does to the city A fifteen-foot wall of water starts like this: a hurricane of larger-than-average size spirals up the Atlantic Coast. As it passes New Jersey, a low-pressure system drives the storm eastward into New York Harbor. Due to the size of the storm, an extensive
- [A Headstone for Zach](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2022/01/12/a-headstone-for-zach/) - People told us that it would get better, the grief. But how was this different from forgetting?
- [A Gatsby of The Gambia (Part 1)](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2022/02/03/a-gatsby-of-the-gambia/) - Amadou Camara built the America of his dreams, one campus drug deal at a time. It was never meant to last.
- [A Gatsby of The Gambia (Part 2)](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2022/02/11/a-gatsby-of-the-gambia-part-2/) - Amadou Camara built the America of his dreams, one campus drug deal at a time. It was never meant to last.
- [What Were You Playing At, Philip Roth?](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2022/04/06/what-were-you-playing-at-philip-roth/) - Recalling a strange encounter with the famed author.
- [When Momma's Prayers Weren't Enough](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2022/07/18/when-mommas-prayers-werent-enough/) - A killing. And a summons home.
- [An Iraqi Christian On the Run in America](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2022/08/15/an-iraqi-christian-on-the-run-in-america/) - As a teenager Peter Abbo escaped religious persecution. After thirty-four years in Michigan, he fled again.
- [A Black Woman’s Search For Her Place in White, White Vermont](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2022/10/11/a-black-womans-search-for-her-place-in-white-white-vermont/) - A wanderer wants a home, but a 1-800-Got-Junk? truck, among other things, gets in the way.
- [A Cold Case in Florida](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2022/11/14/a-cold-case-in-florida/) - The Mysterious Murder of a Troubled Teen
- [How Not to Dig Your Own Grave](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2023/03/13/how-not-to-dig-your-own-grave/) - I've seen your death. And I've probably seen mine.
- [Confessions of a Beauty Pageant Loser](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2023/04/20/confessions-of-a-beauty-pageant-loser/) - "Move your legs and keep your lips closed."
- [Mystery of the Disappearing Teepee](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2023/05/23/mystery-of-the-disappearing-teepee/) - One day it was there. The next it wasn’t. Then it was back. Who wanted it gone?
- [Mother of the Crazy People](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2023/06/28/mother-of-the-crazy-people/) - Benighted Sierra Leone is overwhelmed with the mentally ill — and has almost no one to help them.
- [The Birth and Rise of “Ecocide”](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2023/07/18/the-birth-and-rise-of-ecocide/) - How atrocities against nature could become international crimes
- [Beirut, at Sunset](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2023/08/03/beirut-at-sunset/) - On August 4, 2020 a massive explosion ripped through the beleaguered city’s port, killing 218 people and injuring 7,000. The explosion was not an act of terrorism or war but an act of carelessness from which Beirut has still not recovered.
- [Escape from Kashmir](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2023/09/26/escape-from-kashmir/) - A young couple fell in love with Kashmir. Then the threats began.
- [In Limbo in Tbilisi](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2023/10/19/in-limbo-in-tbilisi/) - Georgia’s capital feels like Casablanca — filled with Russian expats, waiting.
- [The Unlikely Posthumous Life of a Prodigy’s Typewriter](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2023/11/16/the-unlikely-posthumous-life-of-a-prodigys-typewriter/) - Stig Dagerman was a literary phenomenon who took his own life when he was 31. A hundred years after his birth, a writer goes in search of his typewriter to make sense of his life and enduring legacy.
- [When I Was Blind](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2023/12/19/when-i-was-blind/) - A Story of Love and Darkness.
- [The Remnants](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2024/02/21/the-remnants/) - This bar, where a dozen or so of the most zealous bacchanals had congregated, was nobody’s first choice. By Adlai Fitzgerald Coleman Halloween fell on a Tuesday, meaning that most casual revelers celebrated the holiday on the friday or saturday before. Thus, by midnight on the actual day, only the truly dedicated remained. Most of Adlai Fitzgerald Coleman
- [Meeting the Woman My Father Buried](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2023/10/19/meeting-the-woman-my-father-buried/) - The first time I felt the need to understand the woman who had become my mother, I was watching her sob quietly through a sliver of a slightly opened door.
- [Among The Bereaved](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2023/11/02/among-the-bereaved/) - There’s an enduring duality to life after loss. “Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything,” C.S. Lewis observed of his own grief.. For Jami, 15 years after Joe’s death, the happiness captured in that wedding photograph is present still, in the memory. But it is equally met with the sting of his absence.
- [Runaway: When the Ties that Bind Unravel](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2023/12/06/runaway-when-the-ties-that-bind-unravel/) - When Pauline phoned her eldest sister, Merry, to say she was leaving behind her entire family and moving to California, Merry felt it was probably for the best. The rest of the family agreed.
- [I am Jack’s Caudal Fin](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2024/01/29/i-am-jacks-caudal-fin/) - By Liz Foster I met the New York Aquarium’s sand tiger sharks on a temperate day in October. They stuck out in contrast to their peers. Unlike the small frys roaming around other enclosures, the lumbering sand tigers possessed a menacing aura. Their tank lacked their neighbors’ vibrance, only further emphasizing their massive presence. The By Liz Foster I met the New York Aquarium’s sand tiger sharks on a temperate day in October. They stuck out in contrast to their peers. Unlike the small frys roaming around other enclosures, the lumbering sand tigers possessed a menacing aura. Their tank lacked their neighbors’ vibrance, only further emphasizing their massive presence. The Do Aquarium Sharks Get Bored Swimming in Circles? Maybe.
- [A Box Of Hope ](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2023/10/26/a-box-of-hope/) - By the time of his death many of the people closest to my father had given up on him. He drank and took pills and it was often left to me to pick him up and put him to bed at the end of the night. He would cry and apologize and promise me he would get it right. On the day he died I found him in the living room. He had fallen face first over the back of the couch.
- [What Do We Do With Robert E. Lee?](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/11/04/what-do-we-do-with-robert-e-lee/) - The General is buried at Washington and Lee University. For over a century that was never a problem. Then came Charlottesville.
- [The Trials of Steven Tendo](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2021/02/24/the-trials-of-steven-tendo/) - An Ugandan pastor fearing for his life flees to America seeking asylum. But will a judge believe him and let him stay?
- [Birth. Death. Life.](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2021/04/07/birth-death-life/) - A child dies before he can be born. His mother sets out to understand why.
- [West of Nowhere](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2021/06/11/west-of-nowhere/) - Where the Afghan War Would Be Won, Lost, or, More LIkely, Forgotten. Hey, We Tried.
- [Forgiveness](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2021/12/14/forgiveness/) - Mothers and daughters search for each other in Iran.
- [Waiting for Normal](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/10/21/waiting-for-normal/) - A journalist returns to Beirut fearful that the revolution she’d had to watch from afar had ended.
- [Squeezing the Elephant](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/09/23/squeezing-the-elephant/) - The massive Asian version is running out of habitat, raiding farms, and killing the occasional human
- [When the Iron Men Returned](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/08/18/when-the-iron-men-returned/) - A French town has never stopped celebrating the GIs who liberated them 75 years ago.
- [The Day the Earth Sorta Stood Still](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/07/15/the-day-the-earth-sorta-stood-still/) - The Brooklyn Dodgers Played in Nine World Series. They Won One. Two Years Later They Were Gone.
- [The Baller](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/04/01/the-baller/) - Can attitude help save the planet? A frightened climate reporter meets an ex-basketball player with a serious game plan.
- [Absolution](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/03/18/absolution/) - The Long Odyssey of a Child Soldier
- [Waiting to Be Blessed](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/03/10/waiting-to-be-blessed/) - He Needed a Cheap Place to Live. His Landlord Offered a Lesson on Life.
- [Mia’s World ](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/03/01/mias-world/) - She wanted a new life in America. She found it in a massage parlor.
- [The School at the End of the Trail of Tears     ](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/02/24/the-school-at-the-end-of-the-trail-of-tears/) - For many Native American teenagers Sherman Indian High School is a last chance for an education and a future.
- [When My Newspaper Died](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/11/25/when-my-newspaper-died/) - In hardluck Youngstown, Ohio a reporter covers one last big story for his hometown newspaper.
- [“Why Don't You Go Fight for the Reindeer?”](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/11/17/why-dont-you-go-fight-for-the-reindeer/) - Scandinavia’s Sami have been herding reindeer for generations. Then the miners arrived. The Sami had never been protesters. Until now.
- [High Falls: A Human Chain](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/06/28/high-falls-a-human-chain/) - How do you tell the story of a young man’s horrific suicide if no one wants to hear it?
- [The Moral Complexity of Sioux County, Iowa](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/06/27/the-moral-complexity-of-sioux-county-iowa/) - Congressman Steve King’s quiet heartland is all-American, you might say. And America is changing.
- [When We Stopped at the Water](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/06/26/when-we-stopped-at-the-water/) - Forty-eight years ago four friends set off on a road trip. Three returned.
- [Mi Realidad: Cuban Rap Struggles to be Heard](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/06/25/mi-realidad-cuban-rap-struggles-to-be-heard/) - Rappers convey the harsh realities of Cuban life, but no one on a changing island wants to listen anymore.
- [A Haunting](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/06/24/a-haunting/) - The 1892 lynching of four men, a small southern backwater, and a reporter confronted with the reflections of the past.
- [Pupil of the Nation](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/02/23/pupil-of-the-nation/) - My father spent a life on the run from the ghosts of wartime betrayals. But they are hard to lose.
- [True North](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/02/17/true-north/) - It took an escape from her gray, struggling, Brexit-voting hometown in northern England to feel its magnetic pull
- [You Could Die!](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/02/11/you-could-die/) - A girl and her longboard on the New York streets
- [Balance](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/02/05/balance/) - The diary of a middle-aged surfer in landlocked London
- [And Now You Can Leave: Israel and the Other](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/28/and-now-you-can-leave-israel-and-the-other/) - "For you were strangers in the land of Egypt."
- [Issue #5](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/07/15/issue-5/) - If you could choose only one memory from the entirety of your life to take with you into the after life, what would it be?
- [The Year of Fear, Conclusion](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/10/28/the-year-of-fear-conclusion/) - As Election Day Nears
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Thirty-Five](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/10/13/year-of-fear-chapter-thirty-five/) - Counting on 2021 being much better
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Thirty-Four](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/10/06/year-of-fear-chapter-thirty-four/) - Will the sons of steelworkers see Trump’s COVID-19 behavior as strong, or reckless?
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Thirty-Three](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/09/29/year-of-fear-chapter-thirty-three/) - Macon-Bibb County, and the unrelenting shock of COVID-19
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Thirty-Two](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/09/22/year-of-fear-chapter-thirty-two/) - A Confederate Soldier Moves On
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Thirty-One](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/09/15/year-of-fear-chapter-thirty-one/) - Where are the campaign signs and the politiqueras?
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Twenty-Nine](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/09/03/year-of-fear-chapter-twenty-nine/) - A local election, school reopenings, and the pandemic
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Twenty-Eight](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/08/25/year-of-fear-chapter-twenty-eight/) - In rural Virginia, a tale of two Congressional districts
- [The Year of Fear, Chapter Twenty-Seven](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/08/18/the-year-of-fear-chapter-twenty-seven/) - South Texas is a bad algorithm right now
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Twenty-Six](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/08/11/year-of-fear-chapter-twenty-six/) - What will ‘normal’ mean after COVID-19?
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Twenty-Five](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/08/05/year-of-fear-chapter-twenty-five/) - To school or not to school—a burning question
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Twenty-Four](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/07/29/year-of-fear-chapter-twenty-four/) - When a Newspaper Dies, What Fills the Void?
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Twenty-Three](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/07/21/year-of-fear-chapter-twenty-three/) - ‘McAllen and South Texas Need Help Now’
- [Issue #4](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/02/23/issue-4/) - People get wiser in all sorts of ways, not all of them expected, and not all of them good.
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Twenty-Two](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/07/08/year-of-fear-chapter-twenty-two/) - Macon-Bibb County votes while a nation protests
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Twenty-One](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/07/08/year-of-fear-chapter-twenty-one/) - Racism, Confederate Statues, and the View from Frog Level, Virginia
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Twenty](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/06/23/year-of-fear-chapter-twenty/) - South Texas was reopening. Now COVID-19 is roaring back.
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Nineteen](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/06/18/year-of-fear-chapter-nineteen/) - How Facebook has undermined communal conversation in McKeesport
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Eighteen](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/06/09/year-of-fear-chapter-eighteen/) - Dirty politics in the digital age
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Seventeen](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/06/02/year-of-fear-chapter-seventeen/) - At the edge of a pandemic, its direction unknown
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Sixteen](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/05/26/year-of-fear-chapter-sixteen/) - Saving Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge extends beyond political boundaries
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Fifteen](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/05/22/year-of-fear-chapter-fifteen/) - In towns like McKeesport, the future was already precarious. Then came coronavirus.
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Fourteen](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/05/12/year-of-fear-chapter-fourteen/) - A Good Idea at the Time
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Thirteen](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/05/05/year-of-fear-chapter-thirteen/) - How the pandemic is playing in rural Virginia
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Twelve](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/04/28/year-of-fear-chapter-twelve/) - COVID-19 has changed how we report stories on the border
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Eleven](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/04/21/year-of-fear-chapter-eleven/) - Transparency in a Time of Pandemic
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Ten](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/04/14/year-of-fear-chapter-ten/) - Standing on sinking sand, living in limbo
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Nine](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/04/07/year-of-fear-chapter-nine/) - Imagine This: The Ghost of a Weekly Covers the Pandemic
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Eight](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/04/01/year-of-fear-chapter-eight/) - In the Rio Grande Valley, a border closes, and signs of a wall as the pandemic spreads
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Six](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/03/17/year-of-fear-chapter-six/) - Yes, Dorothy, we are way outside the beltway.
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Five](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/03/11/year-of-fear-chapter-five/) - Are Democrats an Endangered Species in Caroline County? Maybe Not.
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Four](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/03/03/year-of-fear-chapter-four/) - Fighting the Wall Along the Rio Grande
- [Issue #3](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/10/28/issue-3/) - The shortest farewells are the best. Or are they?
- [Year of Fear, Chapter Two](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2020/02/21/year-of-fear-chapter-two/) - What’s vexing Macon?
- [#15 Graig Graziosi](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/11/26/15-graig-graziosi/) - https://soundcloud.com/delacortereview/issue-3-episode-5-graig-graziosi
- [#14 Juliana Hanle](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/11/18/14-juliana-hanle/) - https://soundcloud.com/delacortereview/issue-3-episode-4-juliana-hanle
- [#13 Zoe Todd](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/11/11/13-zoe-todd/) - https://soundcloud.com/delacortereview/issue-3-episode-3-zoe-todd
- [#12 Abigail Covington](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/11/04/12-abigail-covington/) - https://soundcloud.com/delacortereview/abigail-covington
- [#11 Michael Shapiro](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/10/29/11-michael-shapiro/) - https://soundcloud.com/delacortereview/issue-3-episode-1-michael-shapiro
- [Book of Lamentations](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/10/28/book-of-lamentations-2/) - Michael Shapiro returns to Israel after 35 years to visit a grave and find a country.
- [Issue #2](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/06/23/issue-2/) - When is it a virtue to be silent? When is it a curse?
- [Twice Exceptional](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/twice-exceptional/) - A mother goes to war with the Lords of Education on behalf of her legally blind five year old.
- [#10 Robert Fieseler](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/06/28/10-robert-fieseler/) - https://soundcloud.com/delacortereview/issue-2-episode-5-robert-fieseler
- [#9 Lauren Harris](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/06/27/9-lauren-harris/) - https://soundcloud.com/delacortereview/issue-2-episode-4-lauren-harris
- [#8 Paul D. Colford](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/06/26/8-paul-d-colford/) - https://soundcloud.com/delacortereview/issue-2-episode-3-paul-colford
- [#7 Natasha Rodriguez](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/06/25/7-natasha-rodriguez/) - https://soundcloud.com/delacortereview/issue-2-episode-2-natasha-rodriguez
- [#6 Selin Thomas](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/06/24/6-selin-thomas/) - https://soundcloud.com/delacortereview/issue-2-episode-1-selin-thomas
- [#5 Diego Courchay](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/02/25/5-diego-courchay/)
- [#2 Carl Friedmann](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/02/05/2-carl-friedmann/)
- [#4 Mike Hoyt](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/02/18/4-mike-hoyt/)
- [#3 Irene Chidinma Nwoye](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/02/12/3-irene-chidinma-nwoye/)
- [My Rehab: Coming of Age in Purgatory](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/my-rehab-coming-of-age-in-purgatory/) - In 1982 I was 16 and destroying my life.
- [Breathing Underwater: An Autism Tale](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/breathing-underwater-an-autism-tale/) - The Rapid Prompting Method of communicating with patients is unproven, controversial and, in Alex’s family, a haven.
- [I Was a Chinese Child-bride](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/i-was-a-chinese-child-bride/) - Or so everyone thought when I went to Bora Bora with my dad.
- [Perfect. Perfect. Perfect Again.](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/perfect-perfect-perfect-again/) - Can you solve a Rubik’s cube in four seconds? Can you do it blindfolded? They can.
- [The Burning Season](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-burning-season/) - You cannot save everything when the fires come to Northern California.
- [The Deep Magic of Mexico](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-deep-magic-of-mexico/) - My year and a half with the Healer of Los Reyes
- [Hoardin’](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/hoardin/) - In the course of her travels the author came across a woman who could not throw anything away. Ever. “You never know a real story,” she writes, “until after it’s done, and this is a good one.”
- [My Shattered Istanbul](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/my-shattered-istanbul/) - Turkey is slipping away from my family, collapsing into the arms of a tyrant. We thought she was ours. Maybe we were wrong.
- [P.I.C.U.](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/p-i-c-u/) - It is the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, but they call it “Pick-You.” And you wonder over and over why you’ve been picked.
- [First There is a Mountain](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/first-there-is-a-mountain/) - For twenty-five years, Leonard Knight poured mud over hay bales, tossed in the odd tire or windowpane, and painted the words God Is Love over and over on the adobe-like structure that resulted. His Salvation Mountain is essentially a massive pile of sculpted dirt in a weird part of the scorching Mojave. And yet it draws people.
- [A Blind Eye](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/a-blind-eye/) - In West Africa, a Surgeon Navigates the Moral Mathematics of Second-String Medicine.
- [My Soccer Saga](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/my-soccer-saga/) - A sportswriter seeks the heart of the World Cup. Instead, he finds Brazil.
- [The Boys Who Loved Birds](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-boys-who-loved-birds/) - How the Iron Curtain’s great wasteland became Europe’s ribbon of life.
- [The Proper Weight of Fear](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-proper-weight-of-fear/) - Ten years after fleeing in terror, an American expat revisits Somaliland to consider who she has become.
- [Damage](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/damage/) - When I was younger, someone took a knife to my clitoris and cut out a small but significant part of me. I blamed my mother. I despised her. I loved her.
- [My Journey to the New Jerusalem](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/my-journey-to-the-new-jerusalem/) - Forty percent of Jewish millennials are unaffiliated. That doesn’t mean they’re not creating a new kind of Jewish world.
- [The Robots of Resistance](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-robots-of-resistance/) - Why does new technology always seem to serve the rich and powerful? Meet the MIT visionary who kept asking that question, as long as he could get away with it.
- [The Battle For Bunny Land](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-battle-for-bunny-land/) - Are rabbits for cuddling? For showing? For eating? Inside the war over the fate of rabbits and the people who love them.
- [Latter-Day Saint](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/latter-day-saint/) - Maybe the hard road to self-acceptance is a road to God. A gay Mormon’s complicated journey.
- [Kill Me Now](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/kill-me-now/) - Jana Van Voorhis, a troubled Arizona woman, sought relief from terrible maladies that did not exist. And when she crossed paths with a right-to-die group, her fate was sealed.
- [The Hotel of Enlightenment](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-hotel-of-enlightenment/) - Some time after his father’s suicide, a writer finds himself in Nicaragua on a journey among signs and wonders.
- [The Bridge to Sodom and Gomorrah](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-bridge-to-sodom-and-gomorrah/) - The biggest slum in struggling Ghana is bounded by a burning dump and a sewage channel. Meet the hustlers, builders, prostitutes, entrepreneurs, bad boys, and dreamers who live there, illegally but cheaply, gambling that they’ll come out better than when they went in.
- [The Empire Strikes Back](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-empire-strikes-back/) - This — Crimea and all that has followed, and may still follow — was never just about contemporary politics. It was Vladimir Putin beginning to articulate his answer to the vexed eternal question: ‘What does it mean to be Russian?’
- [Hattie Brazier Stands Up](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/hattie-brazier-stands-up/) - A tale of race, law enforcement, and murder in 1957 America, not so long ago.
- [The Man Who Jumped Out Of The Window](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-man-who-jumped-out-of-the-window/) - My Great Uncle Abe was a liberal icon and a target of vicious McCarthyites in the 1950s. But is that what drove him to suicide?
- [Heroin: A Love Story](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/heroin-a-love-story/) - An addict heads for the shelter of home. But she’s not ready.
- [Dance Revolution ‘72](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/dance-revolution-72/) - Four decades ago at the University of Georgia, some brave students wanted to hold a dance to change the world. And they did.
- [Notes From My Suicide](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/notes-from-my-suicide/) - A low point, a bottle, a cat, a gun.
- [The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-girl-who-wouldnt-die/) - If her father were alive, Christina Martinez knew, he would not approve of her riding in this car, through these unfamiliar neighborhoods, with these three men.
- [Something More Wrong](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/something-more-wrong/) - For Alice, Creedmoor Psychiatric Center is both the latest stop and the last resort on a five-year-long involuntary journey into the depths of her illness.
- [The Man That Wasn’t](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-man-that-wasnt/) - When I was six years old my best friend’s father killed himself. I was terrified that my dad would kill himself, too.
- [Burn](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/burn/) - A crew of inmate firefighters help extinguish fires in Arizona
- [Crash](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/crash/) - Six years after a fatal car crash, a family remembers their son’s death
- [My Weekend At Adolf’s](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/my-weekend-at-adolfs/) - A look inside the world of Neo-Nazis.
- [She’ll Be Good to You](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/shell-be-good-to-you/) - Disco is walking the streets of New York City again
- [The Man Who Hid in an Airplane Bathroom](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-man-who-hid-in-an-airplane-bathroom/) - Habib Hussain sold his field in India for passage to Saudi Arabia and dreams of money and status. He came home as a stowaway.
- [The Light in Beirut](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-light-in-beirut/) - Up against a wall, waiting to die on a late afternoon in August 1982, a journalist’s life stops and then starts over.
- [Paralyzed](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/paralyzed/) - Eric LeGrand ran downfield and hit an opponent. Then he started a new life.
- [The Boy Who Lived](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-boy-who-lived/) - A father considers a marriage and how it changed, before and after the appointment at the abortion clinic
- [In the Clearing Stands a Boxer](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/in-the-clearing-stands-a-boxer/) - The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Gerry Cooney
- [A Stranger Knocks](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/a-stranger-knocks/) - A Mysterious Visitor. A Horrific Crime. A Victim Who Refuses To Be a Victim.
- [Broken](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/broken/) - Civic leaders want to fix East New York. Do they know what they’re up against?
- [A Trial By Fire](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/a-trial-by-fire/) - She warmed some chicken for her nieces, took out the trash, and everything changed. Who is responsible?
- [Last Trip to Quetico](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/last-trip-to-quetico/) - We all know there’s a last time for everything but so often in life we don’t recognize one as such until long after the moment has passed. This one, I do.
- [The Big House](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-big-house/) - My family once enslaved people. What do I do about that?
- [Don Quixote’s Classroom](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/don-quixotes-classroom/) - Where a 400-year-old dreamer inspires modern undocumented children
- [To the Left of Normal](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/to-the-left-of-normal/) - The biggest lie about OCD is that it’s funny
- [The Killers of Swaziland](https://6pl.14d.myftpupload.com/2019/01/22/the-killers-of-swaziland/) - Fifteen years ago in this African kingdom, two serial killers were hard at work. Just one of them was human.

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