Viet Thanh Nguyen, the author of The Sympathizer, joined LARB editor in chief today at Chevalier’s Books for a special …
Tom’s Book Club Hosts Viet Thanh Nguyen
August 2015
There Be Dragons
By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Dragons and China. It’s the biggest fucking cliché. If you ever go looking for books about …
Without a Map
By Sarah Woods MOST TRAVEL WRITERS harbor a secret hope they will uncover something special as they voyage. But many never …
When Women Wage Peace
By Joanna Chen My friend and I arrive late at the protest tent of Women Wage Peace in Jerusalem. Temperatures …
A New Biography of China’s Imprisoned Nobel Laureate: A Q&A with Jean-Philippe Béja
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom Rowman and Littlefield recently published Steel Gate to Freedom : The Life of Liu Xiaobo, a translation of …
An Open Letter to Dr. Walter Palmer, Dentist, Hunter
By Deanne Stillman Dear Dr. Palmer: Due to the news story that you’ve recently been involved in, I know a …
The Road to Jericho
By Joanna Chen Photograph by Joanna Chen. All rights reserved. Today we go to Jericho, Raz and I. It’s a …
Expat Identities
By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham In my last China Blog post, I interviewed Hong Kong-based author Shannon Young, who talked about …
Help the LARB Summer Interns Bring Their Magazine to Print!
Seven very talented college students spent the summer at the Los Angeles Review of Books learning how to make a …
Reading Material for the Rails
By Austin Dean Chinese high-speed railway stations are overwhelming places, simultaneously cavernous and crowded. The main terminal usually spans one …
