LongReads Round-Up Volume Ten

 #Feminism

“If you’re starting to suspect that the system is built so that women lose no matter what they do, watch out. Thoughts like that may be rational responses to the world how it actually is, but they also lead one down the dark path towards admitting that you are, in fact, a feminist.” http://prospect.org/article/sorry-feminists%E2%80%94not

#Film

Truman Capote writing about Marlon Brando filming in Japan http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1957/11/09/1957_11_09_053_TNY_CARDS_000252812?currentPage=all

Review of Spielberg's Lincoln film: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/nov/21/lincoln-authentic-wonderment/

#History

Cracking the cipher of a secret society with computer algorithms http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/ff-the-manuscript/all/

#International

An idealist struggles to liberate North Korea http://www.themorningnews.org/article/north-korea-wont-be-liberated-in-a-day

One of those “what we took from history isn’t what actually happened” situations- how the mythology of the Cuban Missile Crisis is harming US foreign policy http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/08/the_lie_that_screwed_up_50_years_of_us_foreign_policy?page=full

Rape allegations swallowed up in Chinese bureaucracy http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/08/kafka_in_beijing?page=full

Major powers, including China, are turning on the charm in South East Asia. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/18/chinas_soft_power_surge?page=full

#Literature

How Charlotte Bronte did it different http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/arts/bee-wilson/charlotte-brontes-silent-revolt

Truman Capote's unfinished last novel that might be responsible for destroying his career http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/12/truman-capote-answered-prayers

Queenan has read approximately six thousand books, and he has strict rules for what he reads next: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444868204578064483923017090.html

#Music

Love Song for Leonard Cohen http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/nov/15/why-i-love-leonard-cohen/

#Photography

Photo series of abandoned world fair structures http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/11/jade-doskow-worlds-fairs/?pid=4269

Portraits of men and women suffering from addiction http://www.motherjones.com/photoessays/2012/03/portraits-addiction-bronx/mannyquiles-arnade

#Political

Interesting perspective from a Mormon reporter who followed the Romney campaign http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/a-mormon-reporter-on-the-romney-bus

Uniting behind economic reform http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/dec/06/what-new-president-should-consider/?pagination=false

What should be the new focus of reform, post health care http://prospect.org/article/great-societys-next-frontier

Nate Silver, the great prophet of our age: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/16/predicting_the_future_is_easier_than_it_looks?page=full

#Travel

From Harper’s, a ranging history of the Bronx Zoo, from its eugenics fascinated founders to present day http://longform.org/wild-things/

Atlantic City after Sandy: http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/110217/boardwalk-vampires

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