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May 2017
Crashing the Party: An Interview with Scott Savitt
By Matthew Robertson Editor’s Introduction: The China Blog often publishes something at this time of year that looks back in …
The Heart Grows Stranger: Sorrow & the Unspeakable in Three Recent Prose Texts
By Kristina Marie Darling In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva observes that mourning is, in essence, a loss of language. Words …
Alexander Woollcott’s Memorial of Father Francis Duffy of New York’s 69th Regiment
By John Romano This piece was written by Alexander Woollcott, New Yorker drama critic and Algonquin wit, one night in …
10 Ways to Celebrate Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
By Sarah Maugaotega Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month was first celebrated in May of 1990. Since then, the achievements and contributions …
Why We Should All Read Alice in Wonderland Right Now
It really is difficult trying to come to terms with atrocious events like the one recently witnessed in Manchester. This …
The Know-How of Korean Netizens in a High-Spec New Paradigm of Synergy: or, Korea’s Dilbert-Era Loanwords
By Colin Marshall Lulled into a false sense of security by the simplicity of its alphabet, those students of the …
An Evening with Mary Gaitskill and the Los Angeles Review of Books
By Sophie Browner Two weekends ago, the Los Angeles Review of Books hosted Mary Gaitskill at Editor-in-Chief Tom Lutz’s home …
Judgment Day for Jared Kushner
By Seth Greenland From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, May 17, 2020 Your Honor: I am writing to request leniency …
The Empire Lives in Me: How I Became Postcolonial in the U.S.
By Sunil Bhatia When I was in 6th grade in a class of about 40 students at a small Catholic English-language …
