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Loved that Batuman piece, which I actually only read two days ago. (But now I have to look up the Japan piece Michael Bentley mentions.)

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Agreed that it was a pretty great issue this week. I'm glad the scandal with Batuman's Japan article from a few years ago didn't end her writing career at the magazine. I love Batuman's jokes like: "Standing in the busy square, gazing from the City Assembly building, constructed in the nineteenth-century Moorish Revival style, to a Courtyard by Marriott Hotel, renovated in the early-two-thousands Courtyard by Marriott style, I felt the words “center” and “periphery” slowly losing their meaning."

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