Anne Henochowicz* Sitting in the hushed, stained-glass light of my university’s architecture library, I made stacks of flashcards. I reverently …
August 2016
What Shaped Korean Translated Literature?
By Charles Montgomery The LARB Korea Blog is currently featuring selections from The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation, …
How Long Do You Intend to Stay? Via New Haven-Dieppe and John Berger
By John Shannon In 1939 Henry Miller published a humorous autobiographical sketch in the forgotten pacifist journal Phoenix (Vol. 2, …
Shifting Towards Clinton: A Voter’s Evolution
By Da Chen During my recent visit to China, I was astounded by the media’s obsession with Donald Trump, the …
The Union Libel: On the Argument Against Collective Bargaining in Higher Ed
By Emmett Rensin The National Labor Relations Board has reversed itself for the second time in this century: graduate student …
Nuts! The Bursting of the Chinese Walnut Bubble
By Austin Dean Walk down the street in Beijing and you’ll encounter a certain type of character: buzz cut, paunchy …
That’s Korean Entertainment: the Freakishly Fluent Foreigners of Non-Summit
By Colin Marshall “Whatever you do,” fellow foreigners here in Korea occasionally tell me, “don’t go on television.” Easy enough …
Academics, Journalists—Everyone Is Miserable! Hug!
By Noah Berlatsky Writers are jealous critters. You don’t put your name out there unless you think your name deserves …
Thinking and Writing about Inner Asia: A Q&A with Rian Thum
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom I recently caught up by email with New Orleans-based historian Rian Thum to ask him a variety …
Profsplaining, or, The Internet IS a Classroom, Whinypants!
By Maria Bustillos “The Internet is not a classroom,” pop-culture scholars Amanda Ann Klein and Kristen Warner write in a …