A Few Hits from Longform

Been reading lots of articles linked on Longform. I've parsed quite a number of the 50 most read stories of Year 2 and a smattering of others with tag lines that caught my eye. Here are some of the ones that really stuck out to me [article tag lines lifted from Longform]:

Paper Tigers [Essays and Criticism]
Wesley Yang • New York
What becomes of Asian-American overachievers after the test-taking ends?

The researcher was talking about what some refer to as the “Bamboo Ceiling”—an invisible barrier that maintains a pyramidal racial structure throughout corporate America, with lots of Asians at junior levels, quite a few in middle management, and virtually none in the higher reaches of leadership.

--I wasn't sure I wanted to read this, but I'm glad I did. It makes terrible, awful sense.

( I can't decide if the 'Send to Kindle' feature is a good thing or a bad thing. )

I'm probably forgetting some that I really liked. I enjoy reading most articles I find through Longform and find myself thinking how much stranger life really is than fiction. But there's really just way too much to read.