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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