Bowen Yang Is Making Saturday Night Live a Little Bit Weirder

“The bighearted comic opens up about bringing a fresh perspective to television.”

Source: GQ
Published: Mar 16, 2020
Length: 7 minutes (1,862 words)

The Wing Is a Women’s Utopia. Unless You Work There.

Surprise: women’s empowerment harnessed to American-style capitalism delivers more inequality, and an Instagram wall can’t fix it.

Published: Mar 17, 2020
Length: 20 minutes (5,140 words)

Orderly, dour, cowed: how my beloved Italy is changed by coronavirus

Holed up with his family in their Parma flat, Tobias Jones tells of the eerie atmosphere in a country usually known for sociability, chaos and fun.

Source: The Guardian
Published: Mar 15, 2020
Length: 9 minutes (2,314 words)

The Man Who Won’t Let the World Forget the Firebombing of Tokyo

Part of the paper’s “Beyond the World War II We Know” series.

Published: Mar 9, 2020
Length: 7 minutes (1,808 words)

The Jell-O Rule

The eulogy for novelist Charles Portis, delivered at Portis’ funeral by his friend and colleague Ernie Dumas.

Source: Oxford American
Published: Feb 28, 2020
Length: 12 minutes (3,238 words)

How to Write Well

Rules and rigidity are anathema to writing style and the kind of exciting, surprising language that make literature so rewarding. But writing rules also allow for clear communication and logical arguments. So where is the middle ground?

Published: Mar 6, 2020
Length: 11 minutes (2,793 words)

The Trump Presidency Is Over

It’s hard to be hopeful right now, but one Republican believes that the coronavirus crisis has already revealed Trump as a person incapable of leadership, and that the American people will demand a person who is.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Mar 13, 2020
Length: 6 minutes (1,640 words)

Coronavirus Pandemic Cripples Seattle Restaurant Industry, With More Than 50 Closures in 2 Weeks

This is life in one center of the US outbreak.

Author: Tan Vinh
Source: Seattle Met
Published: Mar 13, 2020
Length: 6 minutes (1,640 words)

Alone Against the Virus

Decades of neoliberal austerity will make it harder to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, more than ever, we must rebuild our social safety net and forge a New Deal for public health.

Source: Boston Review
Published: Mar 13, 2020
Length: 15 minutes (3,970 words)

A Week at the Epicenter of America’s Coronavirus Crisis

James Ross Gardner on the past week of life and the first deaths in Seattle — the first city to feel the effects of Covid-19 in America. “Every avoidance felt like an act of heroism. You told yourself you were saving lives, and you were probably right.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Mar 13, 2020
Length: 10 minutes (2,544 words)