Month: May 2025
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Weekly Wanderings: May 25, 2025
In the Michigan running community, Memorial Day weekend means one thing: Bayshore. It’s a shorthand, an in-the-know reference to the start-of-summer event officially called “Traverse City Track Club Bayshore™️ Presented by Munson Healthcare.” There’s a full marathon, a half marathon, and a 10K, and all three usually sell out. This year, that meant a total…
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Weekly Wanderings: May 18, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories Juliana Yat Shun Kei, “Do you know this place used to be a camp?” Fred Pearce, “China’s Mega Dam Project Poses Big Risks for Asia’s Grand Canyon” Stella Robertson, “Has the Milk Tea Alliance Spoiled?” “Whipling”, “China’s army launches media hiring spree” Xinrui Zhuang, “Africa and…
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Bookshelf: Hurricane Katrina
Today’s post is the second of two on books I’ve read about New Orleans over the past few months. To read part one, on the city’s history, please click here. Thin, sketchy lines and muted colors fill the pages of Drowned City, a graphic history of Hurricane Katrina by writer and artist Don Brown. Written…
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Bookshelf: New Orleans and Its History
I went to New Orleans for the first time earlier this year. I’ve been to plenty of places that I visit once and then leave behind—glad I went, but not determined to return. New Orleans was different. I’m certainly not the first person to say this: the city is famous for drawing people in and…
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Weekly Wanderings: May 12, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories Eliot Chen, “All the President’s Generals” Chen Yiru, “Dot Dot Dot: What the Last Ever Telegrams From Hangzhou Say” Rachel Cheung, “‘A Vicious Cycle’ — Squeezed by commercial and political pressures, China’s book publishers face an existential crisis.” Jack Neubauer, “The Forgotten ‘Jeep Babies’ of China”…
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Weekly Wanderings: May 4, 2025
April 30 marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces. I have a special little reading round-up here at the top on reflections and analysis published to commemorate the anniversary. Thanks for joining me this week. Vietnam, 50 Years After the Fall of Saigon Minh-Thu Pham, “50 Years After Saigon:…
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