• Translating Poetry: An Essay from Marginalia

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    California Soul: Boom Interviews Richard Rodriguez

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    Isla Vista: Two Essays From Avidly

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    A Tale of Two First Books: A Conversation with NPR’s Louisa Lim and The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos

    In 2008, I wrote in the Guardian that there had recently been a “notable acceleration” in the frequency with which “illuminating …

    Xi Jinping’s Peculiar Packaging of the May 4th Spirit

    By Rebecka Eriksson Early this month, Chinese top leader Xi Jinping made a high profile visit to China’s most prestigious …

    A Trip Back to Beijing — Courtesy of Xu Zechen and Eric Abrahamsen

    By Megan Shank Step out of the Beijing airport, and taste the tang in the air. For the remainder of …

    Out Of Body: Freedom, Chaos, and Puppetry in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    By Emily Hunt My first experience with A Midsummer Night’s Dream was watching Michael Hoffman’s 1999 film production. I’m sure …

    Letter from the Chairman of the Board

    Help Us Make History Several years ago, Tom Lutz, the founding editor of LARB, and I sat down to lunch …

    Reading Middlemarch in Jiangxi

    By Mengfei Chen Is it still a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune …

    Letter from Central Idaho: 20 Years of Iconoclastic Bookselling

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