Alec Ash

These are the longform articles I am reading right now (updated automatically via Instapaper):

Dreaming Of Plentitude - NOEMA

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