The New Yorker writer describes his career’s circuitous route, from his start as a struggling fiction writer to becoming a China correspondent, and now the author of a new book about the Arab Spring.
Frank Bures
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Prince of the Midwest
For one Wisconsin farm boy, Minneapolis will always be the city of Purple Rain.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Rebecca Solnit, Robert F. Worth, Margaret Talbot, Porochista Khakpour, and Frank Bures.
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Teaching a Stone to Fly
The perfect skipping stone has “lobes” that act as spokes, keeping the stone above the water.