<div dir="ltr">Albert Wu (@albertowu) is an associate professor of history at the American University of Paris. His first book,&nbsp;From Christ to Confucius&nbsp;(Yale University Press, 2016), examines Sino-European through the lens of missionaries.He has published in academic and popular journals, including&nbsp;American Historical Review,&nbsp;Commonweal, and&nbsp;The Point. With Michelle Kuo, he writes a weekly newsletter:&nbsp;<a href="http://ampleroad.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ampleroad.substack.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623245746189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFSfMdW2YIj7yHsuxck6sUonVi1RA">ampleroad.substack.com</a>.&nbsp;</div>

Albert Wu

Michelle Kuo (@kuokuomich) is an associate professor at the American University of Paris. Her award-winning book,&nbsp;Reading with Patrick&nbsp;(Random House, 2017) combines memoir, reportage, and research on racial and economic inequality in rural Arkansas. Her writing has appeared in&nbsp;The&nbsp;New York Times,&nbsp;The&nbsp;New York Review of Books,&nbsp;Public Books,&nbsp;The Point, and other publications. She has worked as an attorney for undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers, and incarcerated people. With Albert Wu, she writes a weekly newsletter at&nbsp;<a href="http://ampleroad.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ampleroad.substack.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623245746189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFSfMdW2YIj7yHsuxck6sUonVi1RA">ampleroad.substack.com</a>.&nbsp;

Michelle Kuo

Cobra Kai, the Twilight of American Empire, and the Allure of Paramilitary Violence

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen

Television

Letter from Paris

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Waiting

The Crazed

War Trash

The Writer as Migrant

A Map of Betrayal

I Dare Not: The Muted Style of Writer in Exile Ha Jin

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes

Literary Fiction

The Black Iron Cage: Taiwanese Protesters in an Age of Global Unrest

“Take the Good Life and Be Happy”: On “The Americans”

Beyond Belief

The Church of Scientology

Going Clear

Scientology: The Mystery Sandwich

The Rings of Saturn

Open City

Ben Lerner Leaving the Atocha Station Coffee House Press, August 2011. 186 pp.

Leaving the Atocha Station

Imperfect Strollers: Teju Cole, Ben Lerner, W.G. Sebald, and the Alienated Cosmopolitan

In Hell, “We Shall Be Free”: On “Breaking Bad”

Gilead

Home

When I Was a Child I Read Books

Marilynne Robinson and the Miraculous Privilege of Existence

God is Red

Church and State

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Albert Wu (@albertowu) is an associate professor of history at the American University of Paris. His first book,&nbsp;From Christ to Confucius&nbsp;(Yale University Press, 2016), examines Sino-European through the lens of missionaries.He has published in academic and popular journals, including&nbsp;American Historical Review,&nbsp;Commonweal, and&nbsp;The Point. With Michelle Kuo, he writes a weekly newsletter:&nbsp;<a href="http://ampleroad.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ampleroad.substack.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623245746189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFSfMdW2YIj7yHsuxck6sUonVi1RA">ampleroad.substack.com</a>.&nbsp;