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Ariel Levy in Emily Hahn’s “The Big Smoke.”

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💥 Discover this insightful post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Magazine / Takes 📌 Key idea: “Although I have always wanted to be an opium addict, I cannot claim that is the reason I went to China.” Thus begins "The Big Smoke," Emily Han's account of her journey from lively traveler to pale lotus eater (and back again) in 1930s Shanghai. This indifferent beginning of course makes you curious about why Han went to China, and why she was so eager to become an opium addict. More urgently, it makes you wonder: Who is this lady? What will…

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DOJ hits new low with Epstein files

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✨ Read this awesome post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Magazine / Comment,News / The Lede 📌 Main takeaway: On a Friday evening in October 2021, the Department of Justice went into damage control mode. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and other top officials met on an emergency conference call to decide how to handle what they viewed as out-of-line comments from President Joe Biden.Steve Bannon, a former adviser to Donald Trump, challenged a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating on January 6. Committee members were considering whether to refer Bannon to the…

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Restaurant Review: Me Donut?

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Culture / The Food Scene 💡 Main takeaway: Me Donut?, a Japanese bakery chain known for its viral popularity and intriguing name, opened earlier this year in a sleek storefront in Times Square. The company's specialty is They slept A donut (the word in Japanese means "raw" or "fresh") is a moist, very light mass of starch and sugar that seems to have been captured by gravity thanks to the marginal heaviness of various frostings, garnishes and fillings. This textural magic is achieved by means of a…

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Daniel Muin al-Din on the great curve of history

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Books / This Week in Fiction 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Bayezid is an unusual character because he has a drive, which is a form of curiosity like anything else. Even as a boy, he wanted something so badly, even though he didn't know what he wanted. He knows he doesn't want to spend his life making chapatis at a tea stall. His imagination is inflamed by movies, and when he learns to read through hard work, he is fed by gruesome novels. His magpie mind knows that…

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The play that changed my life: ‘It was scary at first but the inheritance made me discover myself’ | Young Vic

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Young Vic,EM Forster,Books,Culture,Stage,Broadway,Theatre,Acting,Stephen Daldry,Aids and HIV 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: In 2018 I had recently lost my mother, so I was searching for connection with spirit. Inheritance allowed me to speak about matters of the heart.It was a world premiere at the Young Vic in London, so we were creating something completely new, which is always exciting. They actually rehearsed for a week with another actor who dropped out of what became my role. I stayed up all night reading Matthew Lopez's script before the audition.…

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Review of ‘I Dream of Theresa May’ – Migrant-wanted political shift sparks intense debate | stage

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Political theatre,Stage,Immigration and asylum,Culture,Theresa May 💡 Main takeaway: Remember Theresa May's "Citizen" speech in 2016 ("If you think you're a citizen of the world, you're a citizen of nowhere") at the height of her questionable immigration policies?Well, she's back to her former glory as Home Secretary, appearing as a looming specter in Vivek Nityananda's political satire about Nikhil (Taarash Mehrotra), a young gay Indian cancer survivor in Britain, who becomes desperate to take indefinite leave to stay and prove himself as a 'good' migrant.Theresa May (Amy Allen)…

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Gallus in Weegieland Review – Funny Show Sends Alice Down a Classroom Rabbit Hole | stage

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Panto season,Tron theatre,Stage,Culture 💡 Key idea: MThe quirky playwright has discovered that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is more difficult to adapt than they might assume. Yes, Lewis Carroll's children's classic is rich with modernity, wit and joy. But also yes, its structure is episodic and its hero lacks agency. Things happen to Alice, one thing after another: colorful but not dramatic.Carroll purists certainly wouldn't agree, but in Wegeland's Gallus, Johnny McKnight makes a better fist of it than most. His version may deviate from the original with…

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‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: How newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side | Anton Chekhov

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Anton Chekhov,Books,Culture,Fiction,Publishing,Short stories 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: FFew writers are as universally admired as Chekhov. In the words of Booker Prize winner George Saunders: “Chekhov – should I be frank? – is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.” Novelists from Ann Patchett to Zadie Smith consider him an inspiration. His plays The Seagull, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard are still being shown internationally. Last year alone, Andrew Scott wowed audiences in his solo film Vanya for the National Theater in London,…

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Did Britain become an economic colony? | technology

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✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Technology,Books,Culture,Economics,Artificial intelligence (AI) ✅ Key idea: TTwo and a half centuries ago, the American colonies launched a violent protest against British rule, and the reason behind this was Parliament’s imposition of a monopoly on the sale of tea and the strange actions of the arrogant king. Today the tables have turned: Great Britain finds itself at the mercy of major American technology companies – so large and dominant that they form monopolies in their fields – as well as the whims of an eccentric president. To an…

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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival review – ghostly echoes, gritty sounds and the rattle of milk froth | classical music

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Classical music,Huddersfield contemporary music festival,Experimental music,Music,Culture,Yorkshire,Choral music 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: TFor starters, November may not seem like the ideal time to take a trip to Huddersfield. I arrived to find the Pennines under a thick blanket of cloud and the temperature approaching zero. So it's also a good thing that music is largely an indoor activity: since 1978, autumn here has meant the annual influx of big names in experimental and avant-garde music for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Once a magnet for post-war stars…

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