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Untangling the Knotty Politics Behind Reggaeton’s Rise in Spain
“Once stigmatized as the music of immigrants, reggaeton now leads Spanish charts, spawning local artists and global stars. But not everyone is a fan.”
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Reading Joan Didion Taught Me How to Not Write About Hawaiʻi
“Didion depicts Hawaiʻi as a place that exists solely in the white American imagination, and, because of this, her journalism is a fiction.”
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A Touch of Moss
“Inside a rainforest or on the city pavement, moss asks so little yet offers so much: a tactile encounter with time itself”
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Back to Chagos
In February, a ship set out from Mauritius into the blue waters of the Indian Ocean. Its mission? To deliver a group of visitors to the Chagos archipelago, under their own flag, for the first time since the British government had forcibly cleared the islands of their 2,000 inhabitants in 1966. Cullen Murphy was there […]
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The Easter Island Schoolteacher Who Sparked a Revolution
The remarkable story of a freedom struggle on a tiny island in the South Pacific.
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Hawai‘i Is Not Our Playground
“To most outsiders, Hawai‘i is defined by the lei-draped, aloha-dispensing, honeymooner-welcoming image of the place. There’s no room for another version to emerge.”
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The Battle for Zimbabwe’s Land Never Ended
“We all still have scars of having land taken from us in the past.”
Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes, Uncategorized, Writing
Listen to the Sound of My Voice
How a journalist found her voice as her mother lost hers.
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The Original Karen
On “colonial nostalgia and Nairobi’s Out of Africa industry.”