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A Breathtaking and Terrifying Expanse: Quan Barry’s When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East

“The distances are staggering. It could take you an hour to drive to a spot on the edge of the horizon, yet that spot feels like it’s just within reach,” Barry writes. “This is what it means to live on the steppe. There are no walls between you and nature. You are nature.”

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Not Here to Make Friends: Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer

Consistent with the author’s headlong personality, the narrative of Rough Magic wastes little time.

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Ten Minutes of Motherhood: A Conversation with Ariel Levy

Ariel Levy on The Rules Do Not Apply, the illusion of control, and language’s inability to express grief.

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The Camel Library

We’ve seen libraries on bicycles. We’ve seen libraries on boats. But what about a library on a camel? Its been happening for two decades in Mongolia. Dashdondog Jamba has traveled…

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Medieval Mongolia’s Undefeated Wrestling Princess

Genghis Khan had a great-granddaughter named Khutulun (the cousin of Kublai Khan), and it sounds like she was a total badass: As she grew older, she joined the public competitions…

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Radioactive Mongolian Dinosaurs and the People Who Love Them

Here are some subjects with which this (extremely long) New Yorker article concerns itself:

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