LARB editors Michelle Chihara and Sarah Mesle went to see Beyoncé’s “Formation” tour’s recent stop at Dodger Stadium. This is …
September 2016
Reading Hillbilly Elegy in Beijing
By Jeremiah Jenne The United States and China have more in common than people might think. Both are vast, continental …
Iranian “Fan” Takes Home Top Prize at Farhang Foundation’s Short Film Festival
By Orly Minazad Farhang Foundation’s 8th annual short-film festival took place Saturday night at LACMA’S Bing Theater to a sold …
Reading Plays
By Ian MacAllister-McDonald The first time script I ever read was Bram Stoker’s Dracula, as adapted by Hamilton Deane and …
Trigger Warnings: What We Fear
By Bailey Pickens At the end of August, John Ellison, dean of the University of Chicago, joined the ranks of many …
Why Does Korean Literature Use an Alphabet?
By Charles Montgomery The LARB Korea Blog is currently featuring selections from The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation, …
Wish You Were Here: The Virtues of Banality
By Maximillian Alvarez I. “Love in the Ruins” When I begin to lose hope—when I sense that I am, in …
Looking for Ghosts in the Quietest Place in Beijing
By Jonathan Chatwin On my first visit to Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery – China’s national cemetery, and resting place of the …
Wangsimni, My Hometown: a Gangster (and a Filmmaker’s) Pledge of Devotion to Korea
By Colin Marshall This is one in a series of essays on important pieces of Korean cinema freely available on …
From Vancouver to Tiananmen — A Review of Madeleine Thien’s Latest Book
By Michael Rank The extraordinary upheavals that China has undergone over the past fifty years call for an epic novel …
