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UCLA brings the punk scene to life

This post originally appeared on The Conversation. On the morning of July 9 2011, we were climbing a remote hill near the western shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Sammy Lokorodi, who...

This piece is published in partnership with China Focus, a student run blog sponsored by the 21st Century China Program at UC San Diego. You asked; New Yorker China correspondent Evan Osnos...

In the same way Christmas festivities have waxed and waned, new religious holidays have been created, higlighting the diversity of American traditions and inhabitants.

As business leaders and politicians alike have proclaimed, this may be China’s century. Which is why we at Hippo have invited American journalist Evan Osnos, who witnessed China’s transformation firsthand as The New Yorker’s China Correspondent, to be our next Ask Me Anything guest.

A single inscription, the Radcliffe Line, changed the fates of millions. Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs suddenly became enemies; they fought over land, wealth, respect, community, and national identity. The objects the refugees brought with them speak volumes.

Alan Ziegler, award-winning author of several books of short prose, describes the history of this intriguing literary form, his preferred style.