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Michael (Pierre Png) and Astrid (Gemma Chan)

How to get beyond a tourist fantasy of Singapore

Media

Watching ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ this week? Here are some other perspectives on the island — that go beyond the uber-rich narrative.

People dressed as Albert Einstein

This novelist riffs off the fact that Albert Einstein was a ‘true outsider’

Books
Sergei Dovlatov in 1980

A Russian writer who wrote about the absurdity of life now has a street in Queens named after him

Arts, Culture & Media
Lolita Bosch is behind the website Nuestra Aparente Rendición (NAR), which puts a face to the victims of cartel-related violence in Mexico. Bosch, from Spain, has lived in Mexico for the past 20 years.

Volunteers put a human face on Mexico’s drug violence

Conflict & Justice
Lolita Bosch is behind the website Nuestra Aparente Rendición (NAR), which puts a face to the victims of cartel-related violence in Mexico. Bosch, from Spain, has lived in Mexico for the past 20 years.

Volunteers put a human face on Mexico’s drug violence

Conflict & Justice
Oyeyemi book Boy, Snow, Bird

Helen Oyeyemi rewrites Snow White as a tale about race and identity in America

Arts, Culture & Media

Novelist Helen Oyeyemi didn’t expect to be alive at age 30. Now, at 29, she has just published her fifth novel.

Oyeyemi book Boy, Snow, Bird

Helen Oyeyemi rewrites Snow White as a tale about race and identity in America

Arts, Culture & Media

Novelist Helen Oyeyemi didn’t expect to be alive at age 30. Now, at 29, she has just published her fifth novel.

Peruvian-born, American-bred author tells stories through the lens of his native land

Arts, Culture & Media

Daniel Alarcón was born in Peru, but raised in Alabama. In a way, through his books, he’s never really left.

Ann Morgan reading

One reader, 197 books, one year to finish them all

Arts, Culture & Media

In 2011, Ann Morgan, a journalist and author in the UK, set herself the goal to read a book from every country in the world in one year. And she blogged about it.

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Ohio in 2016, Poetry in Brooklyn, and Hitler as Comedy