By Joanna Chen My cousin and his wife are visiting us. It’s been a long time since Steven and I …
More or Less Insane
November 2015
In Praise of Chinese Gossip Rags
By Austin Dean I really like reading Chinese gossip magazines. That is something few foreigners in China do, and even …
The Sum of Our Fears
By Stephen Dau Abdul and his cousin, Raheem, sit in a bar in the Gare du Nord in Brussels, sipping …
An “Epic Recipe Fail”: Thanksgiving Grapegate in The New York Times
By Jon Wiener The Tuesday before Thanksgiving last year, The New York Times ran a special food section they called …
Hong Kong Revisited
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom When I visited Hong Kong earlier this month, I did some of the same things I had done …
The Return of a Political Anecdote: Ten Jokes About Vladimir Putin’s Russia
This is the first of “Provocations,” a LARB series produced in conjunction with “What Cannot Be Said: Freedom of Expression in …
The Poetry Scene in China: A Q&A with Poet and Translator Eleanor Goodman
By Austin Dean Eleanor Goodman is an acclaimed translator who recently completed a stint as Artist in Residence at M …
