~hackernews | Bookmarks (2)

Here’s a book that offers recreational drug users the rare treat of feeling a little virtuous. It’s the story of the Wa highlanders, who have lived in the border mountains between Myanmar and China for centuries. Unlike the Tibetans or the Uyghurs, they have not been bullied by a bigger nation into ceding their auto...

The last time I tried to “teach” Madame Bovary was in an advanced undergraduate course at a London university, and I had expected better results. The students either hated it or found it “boring,” and even when they did “sort of like” it, they hated the central character and said things like: “How can I like someone...