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November 2014
Taking the Edge Off in Troubled Times: Healthy Habits for Conscientious Cadres
By Austin Dean It can’t be much fun to be a Chinese Communist Party official these days. On the one …
Phil Klay’s Redeployment Wins National Book Award for Fiction
Congratulations to Phil Klay, who was recently announced as the winner of the National Book Award for fiction for his …
Our Deep Springs Syllabus
Today’s post was originally published on LARB Channel Avidly. By Sarah Mesle and Sarah Blackwood AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS Drs. Sarahs Office Hours: 9-midnight …
This Week’s Triptych Artist: Otto Schubert
Otto Schubert is one of several soldier artists profiled in Postcards from the Trenches, a new traveling exhibit of art …
Clockshop Cheap Talk Conversation Series
Editor’s Note: Below is information about an upcoming conversation series run by Clockshop. Cheap Talk is a conversation series where …
Diary of a Summit: Thoughts on Life in Beijing During the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum
By Mengfei Chen Last week, China’s President Xi Jinping hosted the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Beijing. For Xi, …
This Week’s Triptych Artist: D.E. May
Time is important to D.E. May. His work resembles found objects and documents for some long-ago half-completed project. It is …
ON WAITING AND SUGAR
Photo: Awaiting Kara Walker’s “A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby” (June 2014) By Magdalena Edwards “Waiting too long poisons …
Blacktop Ecologies
Blacktop Ecologies: Los Angeles Poetry and Poetics is a one-day symposium of writers active in Los Angeles today. Though largely …
