What was the last interesting article you read /lit/? For m

But Sandy hook was a false flag???

>>7309019
Hey anon, thanks for the great article.

This article was published about a year ago. It's by GQ but a surprising good read.
http://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/15/roger-scruton-notes-on-nonsense-richard-dawkins-original-sin-islamism-and-more

BUMP
Good Thread idea

>>7309802
>http://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit
Great article man. Great thread too.

http://grantland.com/features/sumo-wrestling-tokyo-japan-hakuho-yukio-mishima-novelist-seppuku/

For fans of Mishima (don't be turned off by the fact that Grantland is a sports site)

>>7309802
I remember reading this a while ago. Really interesting article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/world/stowaway-crime-scofflaw-ship.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/world/middleeast/murder-at-sea-captured-on-video-but-killers-go-free.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/world/outlaw-ocean-thailand-fishing-sea-slaves-pets.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/world/a-renegade-trawler-hunted-for-10000-miles-by-vigilantes.html

I also thought this four-part series about "The Outlaw Ocean" from the New York Times was fascinating.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/07/roughly-100-fantastic-pieces-of-journalism/390318/
From the list:
http://www.laweekly.com/news/how-youtube-and-internet-journalism-destroyed-tom-cruise-our-last-real-movie-star-4656549

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law


Really liked the Sandy H article and the Hermit, thanks.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/danny-dyer-bullied-school-because-6748949

Old article on Kita Ikki's theory of Revolution. He's often lambasted as a fascist but is actually very misunderstood, I also never realised how opposed Mishima was to him

Two /lit/-related:
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/mar/09/great-american-losers/
http://thebaffler.com/salvos/titillated-thou

>>7310600
That top article is just absurd.

"The male novelists performing elaborate genuflections toward female readers are perhaps not exactly bargaining so much as trying to draw us into a new contract: I, the author, promise always to acknowledge my characters’ narcissism, and you, in return, will continue to take an interest in it."

I don't understand, do authors really place this much effort into pandering to females? Like fuck, write what you want and someone will read it or they won't.

Must everything be couched in politically correct anti-masculine terms?

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1101-hanson-rural-urban-divide-20151101-story.html

>>7310550
link?

>>7312683
It's genuinely a thing that happens now though. There are a lot of works where the male character or narrator treats women like human garbage, and then when pressed, the author points out that we're supposed to recognize that the male character is self-centered. You also see it with other media and other topics: I read an interview with the band Ghost Bath where they were asked if they thought it was dishonest to pretend to be a Chinese band to get signed to a Chinese label and they pretty much said, "lol yeah, we suck right?". People mistake doing something consciously for doing the right thing.

https://read.atavist.com/whatsoever-things-are-true?no-overlay&preview

an epic made of a single murder. actually fantastic

>>7313702
It's an academic article behind a paywall but I uploaded it here, along with the other article about the relationship with Mishima's Nationalism

https://mega.nz/#F!gkNC2YwL

>>7310600
Maybe he's discrediting Updike exactly to pander to audience pussy.

>>7313849
Decryption key
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>>7313849
thanks!

>>7309019
Thanks for the link OP, that was a fascinating article.

>>7309802
Excellent article anon.

>>7313849
>invalid folder link

>>7310034
>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law

Great article senpai. Unfortunately, now I'm really upset. I'll have to check out the others.

>>7315378
>>7310034
And the guy killed himself this summer after writing a paper about the effects of solitary confinement. I feel sick

http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html

All of the Paul Graham essays I've read are good but I think this one is the best one to post here as a starting point because it will feed into /lit/'s superiority complex very easily.

http://righteousmind.com/where-microaggressions-really-come-from/