“Sixty years after the Cultural Revolution began, a writer looks back to her childhood in Beijing during its peak, and the banned books that sustained her through the tumult.”
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You and Me and QVC
How a home shopping channel became the soundtrack to a friendship.
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A Strange Continent
“An English expat returns home and unfolds his Brompton bike.”
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The Rise of the Corporate Rave
“The once underground and countercultural ‘rave’ has fully spread to the mainstream in the form of themed pop-ups and sponsored parties. For newbies, it can be a sanitized gateway into electronic music. For true ravers, it’s more complicated.”
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The Healing Power of Watching the Boys of ‘Jackass’ Do Incredibly Stupid Things
“Johnny Knoxville and his band of merry pranksters got me through one of the worst weeks of my life.”
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My Midlife Crisis Corolla Is Fast, Furious, and Fully Modded
“Forget Vin Diesel. Asian Americans are the heroes of import car culture.”
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The Clip Stage
“The clip is something like the primary episteme of the World Cup, for the simple reason that there is too much soccer.”
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The Cartoonist Who Mocked the Madness of Modernism
“With biting satire, Alan Dunn captured how 20th-century architectural trends left everyday Americans astonished, baffled, and enraged.”