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Kristin Wong

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Kristin Wong has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, Electric Literature, Catapult and ELLE, among others. She is a writer for Hidden Brain, a podcast and NPR program dedicated to social science.

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By Kristin Wong

Very short essays about the beauty of words that don’t quite translate from one language to another.

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