Anne Henochowicz* Sitting in the hushed, stained-glass light of my university’s architecture library, I made stacks of flashcards. I reverently …
Finding a Common Thread: A History of Chinese Language
August 2016
What Shaped Korean Translated Literature?
By Charles Montgomery The LARB Korea Blog is currently featuring selections from The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation, …
How Long Do You Intend to Stay? Via New Haven-Dieppe and John Berger
By John Shannon In 1939 Henry Miller published a humorous autobiographical sketch in the forgotten pacifist journal Phoenix (Vol. 2, …
Shifting Towards Clinton: A Voter’s Evolution
By Da Chen During my recent visit to China, I was astounded by the media’s obsession with Donald Trump, the …
The Union Libel: On the Argument Against Collective Bargaining in Higher Ed
By Emmett Rensin The National Labor Relations Board has reversed itself for the second time in this century: graduate student …
Nuts! The Bursting of the Chinese Walnut Bubble
By Austin Dean Walk down the street in Beijing and you’ll encounter a certain type of character: buzz cut, paunchy …
That’s Korean Entertainment: the Freakishly Fluent Foreigners of Non-Summit
By Colin Marshall “Whatever you do,” fellow foreigners here in Korea occasionally tell me, “don’t go on television.” Easy enough …
Academics, Journalists—Everyone Is Miserable! Hug!
By Noah Berlatsky Writers are jealous critters. You don’t put your name out there unless you think your name deserves …
Thinking and Writing about Inner Asia: A Q&A with Rian Thum
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom I recently caught up by email with New Orleans-based historian Rian Thum to ask him a variety …
Profsplaining, or, The Internet IS a Classroom, Whinypants!
By Maria Bustillos “The Internet is not a classroom,” pop-culture scholars Amanda Ann Klein and Kristen Warner write in a …
