January 2013
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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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Radar LARB
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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