• What We Talk About When We Talk About What’s Gone: My Lost San Pedro

    By John Shannon Memories are wonderful things, if you don’t have to deal with the past.  — Before Sunset (2004) …

    Revising Violence

    By Jacqueline Feldman Ahmad Kaddour was born in Tartus, Syria in 1964. He spent most of his childhood with his …

    Introducing the Hong Kong Review of Books: A Q&A With Aflie Bown

    By Susan Blumberg-Kason Earlier this year, two literary scholars, Alfie Bown and Kimberley Clarke, founded the Hong Kong Review of …

    The Gwangju Uprising as Remembered by The Vegetarian Author Han Kang and Other Korean Novelists

    By Charles Montgomery Previously I discussed William Amos’ The Seed of Joy, which I described as a rare work of …

    American Doll

    By Laila Azmy I watch my best friend’s little sister strip her Barbie from her hot pink mini-skirt and heels, revealing …

    Yannis Ritsos: Fidelity of the Poetic Word

    By Steve Light  In memory of my father   “…let the blood be seen as it mounts, swells, throbs, and …

    Behold a Pale Little Pony: Watching the RNC

    By Maria Bustillos The Republican National Convention started off with a bang on Monday, when all kinds of chaos and …

    Chinese Nationalism and the Colonel’s Chicken

    Jeffrey Wasserstrom Whenever a new bout of state-sanctioned nationalist fervor in China makes headlines, I think back to the time …

    The Art of the Plain Deal: A Report from the RNC in Cleveland

    By Tom Zoellner CLEVELAND — An invisible line split the concrete plaza. On the north side, protestors with a megaphone …

    Rimbaud

    By Steve Light In memory of Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016) Poetry never stops Nor the proximities And affections Beneath the African …