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Joe Bernstein

The Saga of the World’s Greatest Dogsledder—and the Fight Over the Future of the Iditarod

By: Rob Goss   |   GQ   |   March 2023
It’s one of the most grueling races on the planet, a thousand-mile odyssey run every winter across the Alaskan wilderness. But with the return of the famed Iditarod, the exploits of Dallas Seavey, dogsledding’s most dominant figure, continue to raise questions about the fate of an embattled sport.
Joe Bernstein

The Wild West Outpost of Japan’s Isolationist Era

By: Rob Goss   |   Narratively   |   April 2022
For two centuries, an extreme protectionist policy barred all foreigners from setting foot inside Japan…except for on one tiny island, a cramped cultural crossroads where anything could, and did, happen.