China’s largest e-commerce company is not only changing the way people in China shop, but how they think about commerce and each other in a Communist country.
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N.K. Jemisin: ‘I am still going to write what I am going to write.’
Hells to the yes, says I.
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Writing Emails to My Late Father
“I’m writing my half of a dialogue that I know he would share with me if he could.”
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We Use Language as a Spade
“Though the embryo was only seven weeks old, I loved it. I loved it and wanted it, and its life ended.”
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William Gibson on How Science Fiction Portrays Reality
“Every fiction about the future is like an ice-cream cone,” Gibson says, “melting as it moves into the future.”
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What Brings True Happiness: the Booze or the Bonding?
“But there’s nothing wrong with a nudge toward examining the difference between what makes us happy and what is merely habitual.”
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Elizabeth Wurtzel Made it Okay to Write ‘Ouch’
Today’s memoirists and personal essay writers owe a debt of gratitude to the Prozac Nation author for rewriting an inhibiting rule.
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How Bagel Makers’ Union Local 338 Beat NYC’s “Kosher Nostra”
‘“A bagel,” the newspaper of record explained in 1960, “is an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.”’
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Finding Solace in the Charged Particles of the Aurora Borealis
“Cree First Nations believe ‘the northern lights are dancing spirits of loved ones who have passed on.’”
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Risking Everything for a Better Life
Migrants looking for greater opportunity, safety, and freedom sometimes stow away in the wheel wells of jetliners in a bid to escape.