LongReads Round Up Volume Two

#Biography

The Texan who designed for Hermes http://www.texasmonthly.com/2012-10-01/feature2.php #Biography #Fashion

The Woman King of Egypt, Hatshepsut: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/biography/the-woman-who-would-be-king.php?page=all #Biography #Egypt

#CurrentEvents

An argument that our relational duties to other humans should outweigh the validity or invalidity of “blasphemy:” http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/whats-wrong-with-blasphemy/ #Religion #Philosophy #CurrentEvents

Religious Lampooning in Cartooning, a brief survey: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonists/2012/09/cartoon-of-atonement.html   #Cartoon #CurrentEvents

Transcript of President Obama’s Sept. 24 UN Speech (that I cried a little during reading): http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/25/did-obama-stand-up-for-a-free-society-at-the-un0.html #CurrentEvents #International

#Development #Education

Evaluating Children Sponsorship Programs (primary source): http://usf.usfca.edu/fac-staff/wydick/csp.pdf #Development #Aid

Child Sponsorship- the big feel good flack or effective outreach?: http://devpolicy.org/child-sponsorship-works/ #Development #Aid

Education reform that is best for the children: http://devpolicy.org/are-we-neglecting-childrens-participation-in-school/ #Development #Education

The dearth of skilled workers in India, and how education isn’t helping the situation: http://www.economist.com/node/21563418 #Education #India

#Essay

Watching your parents age and the places where they do so: http://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-last-place-you-ever-live/ #Essay #Aging

Like an email you’d love to receive: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/how-i-know-i-love-you/ #Essay #Love

#Feminism

Oral Remembrances of early feminist activist Shulamith Firestone: http://nplusonemag.com/on-shulamith-firestone-part-one; http://nplusonemag.com/on-shulamith-firestone-part-two  #Feminism #Obituary

#History

Charles Kaiser’s afterword from gay rights activist Merle Miller’s new collection of writing, a brief snippet of modern history for the American homosexual: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/sep/25/when-new-york-times-came-out-closet/ #History #Gay

#Literature

A great interview with Martin Amis: http://www.themorningnews.org/article/martin-amis-redux #Literature

The strange inaccessibility of JK Rowling and her upcoming novel of small parish politics and life: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/01/121001fa_fact_parker?currentPage=all #Literature

Martin Amis’s bromance review of Don Delillo's 2011 short story collection: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2011/11/21/111121crbo_books_amis #Literature

Salman Rushdie writing about George Orwell and the politics of the artist: http://www.granta.com/Archive/11/Outside-the-Whale/Page-1 #Literature #Politics

A revived interview with Ray Bradbury, first begun in the seventies: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6012/the-art-of-fiction-no-203-ray-bradbury #Literature #Writing

#Media #Film

You know you’ve made it when your video gets parodied by North Korea: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/world/asia/gangnam-style-video-gets-north-korean-propaganda-treatment.html #PSY #Media

“[C]omputer-generated imagery has introduced a radical impurity into a motion picture apparatus that, save for the introduction of synchronous sound, remained markedly consistent for a hundred years:” http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/sep/26/trapped-total-cinema/ #Film #Technology

#Politics

What does your beer say about your voting stance: http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2012/09/the-politics-of-3.php  #Politics

#Psychology

Is the pursuit of happiness making Americans nervous wrecks? http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/america-the-anxious/ #Psychology