Cobra Kai, the Twilight of American Empire, and the Allure of Paramilitary Violence
Albert Wu and Michelle Kuo explore how Cobra Kai manages to tackle American empire, wealth disparity, and rising fascism without cynicism....
Albert Wu and Michelle Kuo explore how Cobra Kai manages to tackle American empire, wealth disparity, and rising fascism without cynicism....
Michelle Kuo, Jeremy M. Davies, and Daniel Levin Becker discuss Éric Chevillard’s pandemic writing and the challenges of rendering his style into English....
A letter for Paris by Michelle Kuo and Albert Wu....
As a new generation of Chinese writer-exiles settles in the West, we wonder whether Jin’s flat, alienating style will come to be regarded as a kind of artifact, a self-preserving fossil of the trauma generated by those who witnessed the mixture of real and manufactured emotion that fueled a collective mania....
The joke of “The Americans” is that it’s quintessentially American....
AFTER FINISHING ANNA KARENINA IN 1877, Leo Tolstoy turned his attention away from creating worlds on the page to creating something in real life: he wanted to establish a radically new religion. Distilling Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount, Tolstoy ...
The evolution of the flâneur...
Walter White's Rebellion...
"For Robinson, America has declined because of pervasive and corrosive ideologies that ascribe human motivation solely to self-interest."...