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Interviews with Social Artists, Uncommon Heroes

February 25, 2014

From the Editor

Richard Whittaker
If we knew we were only going to live a few more days, how would that change our experience? Of course in a larger sense, we're only going to live a few more days. All stories in this issue share a quality that's perfectly at home with a heightened awareness of this miraculous fact of being alive. [more]

More Features

• The Brotherhood of Fools and Other Stories
• A Bear Under the Table, by Mary Stein
• The Vital Image

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The Best Game There Is: An Interview with Ron Howard

"He wanted to help people with suffering. Before we get to that, just think about that story. Each of us at some point learned about getting old, getting sick and dying. But we don't even remember when we got this wake-up call to the nature of existence. We suppressed it, probably more than any other memory ..." A Stanford professor's fresh take on Buddhism.

Three Short Stories: Pavithra Mehta

I have an incurable love for lines at the post office. This is a luxurious indulgence, I know. The kind important people can ill-afford. But I am comfortably insignificant. Nothing catastrophic happens when I am made to wait for indefinite periods of time, so I am at liberty to love these lines and the speed of molasses at which they move.