Jessica Bruder

From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California and Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, countless older Americans are hitting the road in their RVs and modified vans in search of seasonal work. They are victims of the Great Recession, forced to leave behind traditional homes and communities to survive in a new, transient lifestyle. In Nomadland,...

One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The recipient, who didn’t know the sender, only knew she was supposed to bring this box to a friend, who would ferry it to another friend. This was Edward Snowden’s box—printouts of documents proving that the US government had built a...