Alec Ash
These are the longform articles I am reading right now (updated automatically via Instapaper):
The Strange and Secret Ways That Animals Perceive the World
A Teacher in China Learns the Limits of Free Expression | The New Yorker
Hong Kong’s Protest Movement and the Fight for the City’s Soul | The New Yorker
How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda | The New Yorker
How China Controlled the Coronavirus | The New Yorker
Nine Days in Wuhan, the Ground Zero of the Coronavirus Pandemic | The New Yorker
The Rise of Made-in-China Diplomacy | The New Yorker
Learning to Ski in a Country of Beginners | The New Yorker
China’s Reform Generation Adapts to Life in the Middle Class | 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