Actor Riz Ahmed — star of the miniseries The Night Of and films The Road to Guantánamo and Rogue One — describes what life, work, and traveling through airports is like as a British Pakistani.
Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Cheri has been an editor at Longreads since 2014.
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Typecast as a Terrorist
The Night Of and Rogue One star Riz Ahmed describes what life, work, and passing through airports is like as a British Pakistani.
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‘The Things We Own Can Own Us Too’: One Man’s Collection of Nazi Memorabilia
Kevin Wheatcroft, a man in Leicestershire, England, has amassed the world’s largest collection of Nazi memorabilia.
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The Man Who Sleeps in Hitler’s Bed
“It’s so hard to know what to do with all the stuff. I really do feel like I’m just a caretaker until the next person comes along, but I must display it, I must get it out into the public — I understand that.” Kevin Wheatcroft, a man in Leicestershire, England, has amassed the world’s […]
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‘This Is Home Now’: The Karen People’s Journey from Myanmar to Australia
200 Karen people from the Myanmar-Thailand border have resettled in Nhill, a country town halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide in Australia. The influx of refugees has revitalized the town, creating jobs, connections, and a sense of community.
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‘Nobody Is Safe’: A Dispatch from Manila
At The New York Review of Books, James Fenton reports from the night shift in Manila, giving us a glimpse into the war on drugs in the Philippines, from “buy-bust” undercover operations to EJKs (extrajudicial killings).
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The Karen Road to Nhill
200 Karen people from the Myanmar-Thailand border have resettled in Nhill, a country town halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide in Australia. The influx of refugees has revitalized the town, creating jobs, connections, and a sense of community.
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How New Edition Avoided ‘Heart Break’
“The reality is, and will always be, we were in a moment. Nobody—I don’t think—really understood the history that was being made.” The members of New Edition give an oral history of the making of Heart Break, their quadruple platinum album, originally released in 1988.
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Murderous Manila: On the Night Shift
“No one will be safe until many, many more have died.” In a dispatch from Manila, James Fenton describes the current war on drugs in the Philippines and two types of killings: “buy-bust” operations and EJKs, or extrajudicial killings.
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A Spiritual Journey West: A Man and The White Dragon Horse (His Bicycle)
Zilong Wang cycled 3,400 miles west across America to San Francisco on his bike, the White Dragon Horse. At Bicycling, John Brant recounts Wang’s enlightening adventure: how he befriended kind strangers along the way, found an appreciation for life in his solitude, and lost — but later found — his bike at the end of the journey.