Watchlist Countdown, Day 28: “We Are the Olfanauts” by Deji Bryce Olukotun

      We were paid to be cautious, to keep the slipstream of information flowing at all costs, even if it meant removing some of it from the world.

          from “We Are the Olfanauts” by Deji Bryce Olukotun

Yesterday, I had lunch with a woman who, due to an unspeakable accident years earlier, had lost her sense of smell and taste. With as much tact as I could muster, I tried to get her to describe what life was like but, either because she thought...