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Losing Paradise
This story was co-published with Southlands , and appears in the magazine's PUBLIC/PRIVATE issue, available for pre-order now . When Rodney Wagley pushed off from the dock at Bayou Black Marina in South Louisiana, on April 21, 2021, he planned on a leisurely day bass fishing with an old friend. The weather was beautiful and sunny, and they were headed to a favorite spot. Wagley had once fished professionally, a local legend. Now, in his sixties, thin and sun-etched, he just fished for fun. The small store and dusty parking lot, filled with pickup trucks and boat trailers, faded in the distance
May 12, 2026
Alternative Ways of Living—and Publishing
This Tuesday, RE:PUBLIC co-published a story with the Guardian that we’ve been excited about for a long time: “ The Desert Safety Net ,” California writer and photographer Joshua Jackson’s account of the lives of the nomads who converge on the BLM’s long-term visitor areas every winter. Josh spent weeks in the Arizona and California deserts, documenting the varied stories of the vehicle residents who live there. “Over the past several months of reporting,” he says, “I had the great privilege of actually getting to go out to the desert to temporarily camp among these folks, pitching my tent nex
May 8, 2026
The Desert Safety Net
This story was co-published with The Guardian . Every autumn across North America, migration begins. And across the continent’s highways and desert roads, another migration gathers – this one made not of birds or fish, but of humans. They go by many names: nomads, drifters, snowbirds, boondockers, van dwellers. Some travel in search of warmth, others for freedom and community. And for a growing number, the migration is not simply seasonal but economic. Among those is 55-year-old Derek Hansler, a chef by trade. Known to friends as D Rock, he spends the summer in New Hampshire visiting his child
May 5, 2026