The Theater of Cruelty: Jiwei Xiao on Mo Yan’s 'Sandalwood Death'
DISSONANT SOUNDS inspired Nobel-prize-winning Chinese author Mo Yan’s standout novel, Sandalwood Death (originally published in China in 2001...
DISSONANT SOUNDS inspired Nobel-prize-winning Chinese author Mo Yan’s standout novel, Sandalwood Death (originally published in China in 2001...
Jiwei XiaoDec 21, 2013
Part IV of our series on China and the Nobel Prize for Literature. LARB's Asia editors Megan Shank and Jeffrey Wasserstrom asked a number of...
Megan Shank, Jeffrey WasserstromDec 21, 2013
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The Museum of Innocence is 500 days old; the things in the shops around it are older.
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The origins of Pakistan in the idea of a Muslim homeland.
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A unique record of Barthes’s failure to offer a portrait of China.
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David fished a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it for me. "Of course you're having a crisis. Look, everybody is having a crisis all of the time...
Zeke TurnerJun 8, 2012
By gathering emblematic tweets, an important slice of the Revolution is organized and clarified through well-established editorial procedures.
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