January 2013
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The China Blog: Don't Bet Against the House
The port city of Dalian’s transformation into a major metropolitan center corresponded with Bo Xilai’s long tenure as mayor, and his rise to power. By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
On Monday, a few dozen journalists assembled at a press conference in Guiyang to be told by local court officials what most of them had surely already figured out: China’s “trial of the century,” the...
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‘Writer of Our Time’ George Saunders Needs to Write a Goddamn Novel Already by Adrian Chen
Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood’s gift to American power by Slavoj Žižek
Pathos: An Interview with Maggie Nelson
To Bemoan or not to Bemoan: On John Tottenham by Hank Cherry
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‘Writer of Our Time’ George Saunders Needs to Write a Goddamn Novel Already by Adrian Chen
Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood’s gift to American power by Slavoj Žižek
Pathos: An Interview with Maggie Nelson
To Bemoan or not to Bemoan: On John Tottenham by Hank Cherry
MLA 2013 by Alva Edwards
The Rumpus catches up with Ann Friedman by J. Ryan Stradal
Copy of Scarlet Letter Can’t Believe the...
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Will Black Clock Remain at CalArts?
On the eve of the publication of its 16th issue next week, speculation is brewing over whether the West Coast literary magazine Black Clock will remain at the California Institute of the Arts, the journal’s original publisher, or move elsewhere. Other institutions have been eying Black Clock since its debut 10 years ago when almost instantly it became one of the country’s most celebrated and...
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The China Blog: An Interview with Historian James...
Historian James H. Carter recently wrote a piece for the Los Angeles Review of Books on a new “biography” of the “The Books of Changes,” an important Chinese classical text. Asia Editor Jeffrey Wasserstrom caught up with Carter to ask him a few questions about, naturally enough, China and biography. JW: You began your review of Richard Smith’s new...
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Super Sad, Super Swedish Love Story by Kelsey Osgood
What ‘Girls’ and ‘Shameless’ Teach Us About Being Broke, and Being Poor by Nona Aronowitz
Safer Than Ambien: Reconsidering Elizabeth Bishop by Ange Mlinko
Quentin Tarantino Keeps His Head by Zach Vasquez
An Interview with Eileen Myles
W.G. Sebald’s Students Share His Writing Advice by Biblioklept
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The One About Shanghai
By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Friends was already a huge hit among young Chinese viewers when I arrived in China for the first time, in 2005. I didn’t realize just how big a deal the show was here, though, until 2007, when I stumbled across an entire shelf of “Friends English” language-learning products in a Shanghai bookstore. [[MORE]] (The boxed sets included DVDs of the sitcom’s entire...
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The week in reading…
The New Feminism by Sarah Leonard
The Basement
The Tip of the Spear: On a five-year investigation of Scientology by Joel Sappell
The Secret Lives of Stories: Rewriting Our Personal Narratives by Frank Bures
Thomas Pynchon and Paul Thomas Anderson and Inherent Vice by Alexander Nazaryan
H.P. Lovecraft’s Advice to Young Writers
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The Asia Blog: What a Difference Two Years Makes...
by Alec Ash
As with dog years, so is it with China years – one here is equivalent to several in America and Europe. When it comes to pace of change, no one else holds a candle really. The Chinese just fit more in. (The velocity of change is evident everywhere, as per the above photo taken inside one of China’s new superfast trains.) I returned to China after two years away. It’s like...
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