On Interrobang‽, Jillian and Katherine discuss the complexities of translating Disney’s Frozen into Arabic. They then run through some of their favorite recent pieces of journalism, including the strange story of Kim Jong-un’s sushi chef, National Geographic‘s coverage of the postwar US, the tricky issues surrounding food stamps, and the controversial Rwandan leader Paul Kagame. Plus: The history of shit.
Play entire videoElias Muhanna on translating “Frozen” in The New Yorker
Video of the song “Let It Go” from “Frozen”
Jezebel on the “Frozen” story
Conor Friedersdorf’s “Slightly More than 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism”
GQ’s “Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi”
Barbara Demick’s “Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea”
The American Scholar’s “Kodachrome Eden”
Eli Saslow on food stamps
More Eli Saslow on food stamps
The Onion on a judgmental woman at the grocery store
Eli Saslow on mourning in Newtown
Jeffrey Gettleman on Paul Kagame’s Rwanda
The Awl’s article on shit
The Awl on “Toilet Man”
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