By Colin Marshall After years of solo study, I first started taking Korean language classes at Los Angeles’ Korean Cultural …
2015
When Old Blue Eyes Was Red: The Poignant Story of Frank Sinatra’s Politics
By Jon Wiener I remember Sinatra who didn’t pal around with rich Republicans. During the early 1950s, at my Sunday school …
12 Things That Are Banned on the Chinese Internet
This is the fourth in a series of “Provocations,” a LARB series produced in conjunction with “What Cannot Be Said: Freedom …
THE LARB END-OF-YEAR EDITOR INTERVIEWS: David Higgins
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth interview of several we’ll be publishing this month, all with our section editors. Like …
Two Provocations by Ann Telnaes
This is the third of a series of “Provocations,” produced in conjunction with “What Cannot Be Said: Freedom of Expression in …
The Poetry of, or Rather in, the Seoul Subway
By Colin Marshall When I want to learn about a city, whether researching it on the internet or stepping out …
Why Aren’t You Banned Yet?
This is the second in a series of “Provocations,” produced in conjunction with “What Cannot Be Said: Freedom of Expression in …
THE LARB END-OF-YEAR EDITOR INTERVIEWS: Stephanie Cha
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth interview of several we’ll be publishing this month, all with our section editors. Like …
Holiday Book Ideas from China Bloggers and FOBs (Friends of the Blog), Part Two
We started with a simple plan. We’d get six people to suggesting a pair of books apiece, making a dozen …
America Has School Shootings, Korea Has Sinking Ships
By Colin Marshall You still see the yellow ribbons here and there around Seoul. I remember seeing them even in …