Alec Ash
These are the longform articles I am reading right now (updated automatically via Instapaper):
The Truth, by Stanisław Lem | The MIT Press Reader
The Weather in Mongolia | Philip Marsden | Granta
The Flowers Blooming in the Dark | ChinaFile
The Flowers Blooming in the Dark | ChinaFile
Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds | The New Yorker
The Last Glimpses of California's Vanishing Hippie Utopias | GQ
Rain Boots, Turning Tides, and the Search for a Missing Boy | WIRED
He Knew He Was Right | The New Yorker
How Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory | The New Yorker
A BBC Book of the Week
"A talented young observer of today’s China" – Peter Hessler
"Lyrical ... a telling portrait" – Washington Post
"Alive with the full complications of truth" – Evan Osnos
"Compelling and beautifully written" – Prospect