The author and journalist Janet Malcolm has died at age 86.

During the pandemic, people around the world sought relief from lock downs and working from home in leisure sports. By nature’s standards, anyway, as the great outdoors has become the great escape. Hiking trails, parks and other open spaces were packed in 2020 with a cooped-up population searching for fresh air during the coronavirus pandemic. There was a 52.9% surge in outdoor participation, an increase from 50.5% in 2018 and 50.7% in 2019. The number of active, on-course golfers in the U.S. grew by half a million in 2020, the study found, up to 24.8 million.