Oliver Whang

3 days ago | businessandamerica.com | Oliver Whang

Nichols returned to Xi’an when she was twelve. She went to college there and studied literature. She published poetry in regional magazines and met other artists. Later, she went to work for a newspaper. She was assigned to write about foreigners studying at the city college, and started dating one of the Americans she spoke to. They ended up getting married; in 1995, they moved to Massachusetts, where, after a few years, Nichols gave birth to two daughters.

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Oliver Whang

In 1965, not long after Lei Nichols was born, in the city of Xi’an, China, her parents sent her to live with her grandparents and great-grandparents in a small mountain village. There was no electricity and a single well for water. From the mountain, where residents went to forage for mushrooms, you could see the ocean. In the summer, Nichols’s grandmother would boil plants from her garden in a large pot to make herbal medicine.

Jan 19, 2025 | nytimes.com | Oliver Whang |Eric Martin |Jack D’Isidoro |Krish Seenivasan |John Woo |Aaron Esposito | +2 more

Ingrid Jackson had never lived in a trailer before, or a small town. She was born in Louisville, Ky., the daughter of a man with schizophrenia who, in 1983, decapitated a 76-year-old woman. Jackson was 1 at the time. In 2010, at 27, she was in a car accident and was prescribed pain pills. Not long after that, she began using heroin. Over the next decade she went through nine rounds of addiction rehab. Each ended in relapse.

Dec 10, 2024 | nytimes.com | Oliver Whang

Louisa, Ky., is a small town of about 2,600 on the border of West Virginia with a single pair of railroad tracks running through it. If you follow these tracks south, against the flow of the Big Sandy River, you'll go between the public library and the Main Street Park and over Lick Creek, one of the manifold creeks that web eastern Kentucky like capillaries.

Aug 13, 2024 | myheraldreview.com | Oliver Whang

PINEVILLE, W.Va. — Joanna Bailey, a family physician and obesity specialist, doesn’t want to tell her patients that they can’t take Wegovy, but she has gotten used to it. Around a quarter of the people she sees in her small clinic in Wyoming County would benefit from weight-loss medications which include Ozempic, Zepbound and Mounjaro, she said. The drugs have helped some of them lose 15% to 20% of their weight.