“A Trip to Japan in Sixteen Minutes.” Michelle Legro, The Believer.
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articles read & loved no. 53
dietcoker: KMA Sullivan writes about well-intentioned people perpetuating misogyny: “Women Are Bitches.” I’ve got mixed feelings about Murakami’s assessment of his The Great Gatsby translation and its reception in Japan. The Paris Review recommends fiction: “Bettering Myself” by Ottessa Moshfegh The Meaning of White – albinism and a mother’s love Emily Perper!
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How Things Fell Apart
An excerpt from Chinua Achebe’s memoir, There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra, about growing up in Nigeria during a time when his country was breaking free from British colonialism, and writing Things Fall Apart: “When I wrote Things Fall Apart I began to understand and value my traditional Igbo history even more. […]
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Washed Away
Two years after Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, the writer returns to the small town of Onagawa, which was wiped out: “Through repeat visits and long stays as a volunteer relief worker, I would come to know Fujinaka and post-tsunami Onagawa well. Most of my fellow volunteers that summer were Japanese from undamaged prefectures—students with […]
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Without Chief or Tribe: An Expat’s Guide to Having a Baby in Saudi Arabia
Nathan Deuel | Friday Was the Bomb | May 2014 | 21 minutes (5,178 words) For our latest Longreads Member Pick, we’re thrilled to share a full chapter from Friday Was the Bomb, the new book by Nathan Deuel about moving to the Middle East with his wife in 2008. Deuel has been featured on […]
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Longreads Guest Pick: Margaret Ely on 'Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi'
Margaret Ely is a web producer and reporter for The Washington Post. Maybe I was hungry and saw the word “sushi” in the headline, but I was hooked the moment I started reading Adam Johnson’s bizarre, outlandish story about a Japanese chef who served North Korea’s supreme, “dear leader” Kim Jong-il. While it’s known that […]
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Drone Home
On the future of drones in America: “But the drone industry is ramping up for a big landgrab the moment the regulatory environment starts to relax. At last year’s Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) trade show in Las Vegas, more than 500 companies pitched drones for filming crowds and tornados and surveying agricultural […]
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The Game Savers: How A Tiny Company Gives Neglected Japanese Games New Life In America
How a nine-person video game company is bringing little known Japanese games to the U.S.: “If you play video games, you’ve probably played something that came out of Japan. Many of gaming’s biggest and brightest series—Mario, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil—were developed by Eastern companies, then translated and programmed for North American or European machines. “But […]
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UFC Tries To Prove It’s Capable Of A Knockout
How two best friends rehabilitated the Ultimate Fighting Championship franchise, and what’s coming next as the popularity of mixed martial arts expands globally: “The UFC has border-hopped since 2007, first into Europe and Canada, then Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, and the Middle East. The next step is both simple and excessively difficult. Any international fan […]
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Stanford for All
Educators at Stanford University are paving the way for the future of online learning by providing free lectures on the Internet, but the idea of a prestigious college providing mass online education for free remains the subject of intense debate: “Within days of going online with little fanfare, the three free courses attracted 350,000 registrants […]
