All Essays
The Utopian News Program: "The Hour" and "The Newsroom"
'The Hour' did the Utopian News Program first, and it did it better.
Looking Back at The Forward: "The Rise of Abraham Cahan"
Abraham Cahan in America
Monkeying Around with the Nobel Prize: Wu Chen'en's "Journey to the West"
On Wu Cheng’en's "Journey to the West," one of the masterworks of classical Chinese writing.
China and the Nobel Prize: Four Essays on Classic Chinese Authors
On Lao She, Pearl S. Buck, Qian Zhongshu, and Wu Cheng'en
“Blinding, Book I” by Mircea Cărtărescu: An Excerpt and a Review
Fifty Years of Rechy's "City of Night"
On the 50th anniversary of his first novel "City of Night," John Rechy talks to Charles Casillo about its publication and its impact.
A Monument to What Might Have Been: Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"
Qian Zhongshu is a tough sell for the Nobel Prize, but he deserves it for Fortress Besieged alone.
An Excerpt from Mircea Cărtărescu’s “Blinding, Book I”
Part memoir, part fiction, "Blinding" is a Romanian bestseller by a member of the "Blue-jeans Generation," just translated into English.
Getting "The Good Earth"’s Author Right: On Pearl S. Buck
The most influential book on China since Marco Polo.
Untidy Endings: On Lao She
Lao She deserved the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Being Theon Greyjoy, or Why This Dick In A Box Matters
Politics of the penis in government and Game of Thrones.
A Curmudgeon’s Guide to Praise
To praise children is to destroy them.
Trusting Thurber: On Created Nonfiction
On the authorial right to concoct all the whoppers one pleases
Staring Clear-Eyed at the Culture: Joan Didion and the Postwar Deluge
On her hunger for both the rainbow and the rainbow’s end.
De origine actibusque aequationis
Rachel Jeantel, Rammellzee, Basquiat, and the Art of Being an Equation
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