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Shepherd Laughlin
Shepherd Laughlin is a New York-based print and radio journalist. 

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Old media, new year: China’s CCTV woos the nation’s netizens

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February 2011

Shepherd Laughlin

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February 2011

The CCTV New Year’s gala broadcast, known in Mandarin as Chunwan, is probably the most massive media event you’ve never heard of: with an...

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January 2014

Leg over Leg

Ahmad Fāris al-Shidyāq

TR. Humphrey Davies

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January 2014

First published in 1855, Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fāriyāq,’ alter ego of...

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April 2013

Fairy Tale Ending

Stacy Patton

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April 2013

Rodeo Cowboy You meet him at a rodeo dance on the Fourth of July. You are 17. He is 20;...

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November 2015

Anatomy of a Democracy: Javier Cercas

Duncan Wheeler

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November 2015

20 November marks the fortieth anniversary of the death of General Franco. And while the insurrectionist’s victory in the...

 

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