In a tiny, remote Utah town, Lavinia Spalding learns the difference between longing and belonging.
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Seasonal Associate
No longer able to live on her freelance writing income, German novelist Heike Geissler takes a holiday seasonal job at an Amazon fulfillment center.
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Mexico’s Manufacturing Sector Will Survive With or Without America
Despite president Trump’s desire to build a wall and revise NAFTA, the godfather of Mexico’s manufacturing sector said they will survive.
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No Enemies
For a generation of Chinese intellectuals, the events of 1989 were a chance to erase the ghosts of the past. But what happens when your side loses? When the entire country moves backward, not forward? Jacob Dreyer tells the story of modern China through the lives of four men: visual artists Xu Bing and Ai […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Who Benefits from Homeless Relocation Programs?
Many American cities offer the homeless free bus tickets to move somewhere, but do these relocation programs do vunerable populations more harm than good?
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To Catch a Counterfeiter
Western companies pay private detectives to infiltrate and bust China’s $400 billion counterfeit industry. This is what the job is like on the ground.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Eight Things You Need to Know About Me and the Beach
A white woman came up to my mother, leaned in close and said, “We whites have to stick together against the Asian invasion.” My mother was ecstatic. “She liked me! They like me here!”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Story
Defeating the Celluloid Axis
The invisible language of film permeates Christian Kracht’s “The Dead,” prose that is neutral and shot through with so much darkness, you occasionally can’t find the light.
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Beauty Shopping With My Mother, A Former Cultural Revolution Red Guard
A former beauty editor reflects on the differences between the definition of beauty in America and in China during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, where an “unadorned woman was a symbol of liberation from a patriarchal capitalist system.”
