January 2013
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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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Radar LARB
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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December 2012
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Best of Radar LARB 2012
The year in reading…
The Lonely Ones by Emily Cooke
What Should Be the Function of Criticism Today? by Anis Shivani
A short history of Homo sapiens, as well as a prognosis for our survival by Charles C. Mann
On meeting one’s cooler self by Eric Puchner
Silly Theory (Or, the Second Time as Farce) by J.A. Stein
Nixon’s statement “In Event of Moon Disaster” by William...
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"Disruptive innovation" needs you, give to LARB...
“What is being done at the Los Angeles Review of Books is renegade. The fish swimming upstream. A perfect example of disruptive innovation in a floundering industry.” – Forbes “Since launching in April, the Los Angeles Review of Books has become immediately notable for both the quality of its writing, the range of its interests, and the names of its contributors.” - National Book Critics Circle...
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Janet Fitch supports LARB, so should you.
Here’s what Janet Fitch said about last month’s LARB fundraising dinner with Jon Robin Baitz, after a performance of his play Other Desert Cities, at the Mark Taper Forum:
What a great night that was, and thank you for the invitation. A memorable, memorable evening. The kind of thing I secretly hoped for when I dreamed of becoming writer—not just to produce my own work,...
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Why do you support LARB?
Here’s what one donor recently told us:
At a moment in time when newspapers have decimated their book review sections and when the few that remain tend to focus on more popular books, LARB remains an intellectual beacon covering an extraordinarily wide range of new works in dozens of fields. The reading public is grateful for all you do. Thanks!
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