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Crowd sourced recommendations from real buyers. Recovering Marketing CEO who is done with ads and product plays. No kick backs, just earnest recs. No advertising or affiliate links.

Dispatches on regional Chinese food and vegetable-focused cooking. A newsletter by James Beard award-winning author Hannah Che.

Journalist Jae-Ha Kim writes about Korean culture, with a strong emphasis on K-dramas, K-pop and immigrant life. SUBSCRIBE for FREE, won't you?

Lyrical dispatches from the apocalypse.

Translations of Chinese poetry from the Tang Dynasty

Investigating fan culture and contextualizing the rise of stans in our cultural ecosystem. With extra focus on corporate interference and the (d)evolution of fandom communities.

I reported Trump '16 and '20 for magazines & in my book THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. I was going to sit '24 out, but the slow civil war is speeding up.