“Why the Disney formula doesn’t work in China.”
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Lost at Parkland: ‘Peter Was Always My Translator’
For one family, grieving the child they lost in the Parkland, Fla., school shooting is complicated by differences in language and culture.
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Fentanyl: The Portrait of a Mass Murderer
“A cheap, white powder—50 times more powerful than heroin—which kills more than 70,000 people each year in the United States and countless others across the rest of the Western Hemisphere.”
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Days of the Jackal
How Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring standout reads from Ian Urbina, Hanif Abdurraqib, Sallie Tisdale, Brad Rassler, and Adam Reiner.
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The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat
“China has invested heavily in an armada of far-flung fishing vessels, in part to extend its global influence. This maritime expansion has come at grave human cost.”
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Heavily Persecuted, Highly Influential: China’s Online Feminist Revolution
“On Chinese social media, women are censored and harassed, but undeterred.”
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A Mother’s Exchange for Her Daughter’s Future
“Two lives bound into one story by immigration and illness.”
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Escaping China with a Spoon and a Rusty Nail
“I never imagined that I would stay there for three years and eight months, from the ages of 16 to 19.”
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America Doesn’t Know Tofu
“China has spent millennia exploring the culinary possibilities of soybean curds. The West has barely scratched the surface.”