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2/1/2012

The Chief Complaint: Dr. Otis Brawley

For a man with such respectable bona fides—University of Chicago medical school graduate, trained in oncology at the National Cancer Institute, Emory professor, and currently chief medical officer at the American Cancer Society—Dr. Otis Brawley sure knows how to piss ... Read more
1/1/2012

Food Fight: School Lunches

If you haven’t eaten in a school cafeteria in a while, you might find yourself both relieved and horrified by its evolution. The ubiquitous Jell-O and canned green beans of yore are gone, but pizza and chicken nuggets still rule. ... Read more
1/1/2012

Virgin Harvest: Georgia Olive Oil

On a soggy Autumn morning, Jason Shaw was standing in a sandy field and considering the irony of his new calling as a missionary of Southern olives. “The first olive I ever saw was in a martini,” he joked. He ... Read more
1/1/2012

The Long Goodbye

We thought Daddy was going to die in 2001. He was staggering around the house in his underwear, gasping in pain, his eyes hollow, his face slashed from shaving with an old-fashioned safety razor. He was eighty-two years old. We ... Read more
12/1/2011

Solid Ground: The Haiti Earthquake

It’s late summer and Hurricane Irene is blowing, counterclockwise, toward the United States. Roovens Monchil is sitting in a hot, dingy Valley Place Apartments unit near Stone Mountain Highway. The door hangs open, but there’s no breeze. Roovens is far ... Read more
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Must Reads

The Town That Blew Away Justin Heckert tours the tiny community of Vaughn, Georgia, in the wake of a devastating tornado.

Who Is Kasim Reed? Thomas Lake gets an unprecedented closeup of the man who can't stop trying to fix our city.

You Have Thousands of Angels Around You Paige Williams' 2007 story on a young refugee from Burundi won the National Magazine Award for feature writing.

The Voice: The Larry Munson Story Jamie Vacca Chambliss writes about a voice "so venerated and so beloved that it seems to exist as an entity unto itself."

  1. Virgin Harvest: Georgia Olive Oil

    Betty Willis said "This was such an interesting article! My family uses olive oil for dressing as well as sauteing. and to think this is taking place only abou..." Read more

  2. Food Fight: School Lunches

    Kelli Karanovich said "I'm a former GA public school teacher. I was always a bit perplexed by how my school championed its recycling program but served school brea..." Read more

  3. The Long Goodbye

    Joe Hershing said "Part of the problem is taking your Dad to the expensive, high-tech healthcare folks every time he has a "bad spell". It sounds heartless, bu..." Read more

  4. The Long Goodbye

    Ross Perloe said "Article brings back memories of my father and the great care he and my grandparents recieved by my mother who had first been a visiting nurs..." Read more

  5. Assisted Loving

    Joe McPartlin said "Reading this article simply restores my faith in humanity. What a picture is portrayed here of love and devotion by the author, his sister a..." Read more

  6. The Long Goodbye

    BG said "There needs to be a system for outsourcing Immortals to countries where assisted living is cheaper. My grandmother is in assisted living in ..." Read more

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