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The Yankee Who Didn’t Go Home: On Robert Whiting’s “Tokyo Junkie”
An American author’s memoir of his six decades in Japan and his love affair with Tokyo.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
There’s No Place Like Home
Dubravka Ugrešić follows humanity’s gaze toward Oz, in an essay translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać.
Recovering Albanian Voices: A Conversation with Margo Rejmer
The author discusses her newly translated book, “Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania.”
From the Silk Road to New Jersey
Martin Laflamme on the first-ever publication of the entire Lo Archive, a collection of photographs which captures the glory of the Buddhist caves of Dunhuang.
Russia’s Blatant Violation of International Law
Don Franzen interviews Mark Ellis about the legal implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Real Life Stories: A Conversation with Bel Olid
The Catalan author discusses her newly translated collection of stories, “Wilder Winds.”
Diplomatic Epithets: On Peter Martin’s “China’s Civilian Army” and Yuan-Tsung Chen’s “The Secret Listener: An Ingenue in Mao’s Court”
Anatol Klass reviews two books about China's diplomacy.
The Life of Nostalgic Content: On Li Ziqi
Stephanie Wong contemplates the realities of migrant labor in China, alongside the aestheticized content of rural lifestyle vlogger Li Ziqi.
“What Is Old Can Sometimes Feel New”: A Conversation with Andre Bagoo
The Trinidadian author on the ambivalent legacy of V. S. Naipaul and the challenge of depicting a queer Caribbean.
The Language of the Misfit: On Oğuz Atay’s “The Disconnected”
A great Turkish cult novel of the early ’70s is available in English translation (sort of).
Generation Independence: Armenia’s Literary Superheroes
A vibrant young cohort of experimental writers is transforming Armenian literature.
The Guts of the Living: On Polina Barskova’s “Air Raid”
Ainsley Morse and Michael M. Weinstein dive into “Air Raid,” a collection of poems by Polina Barskova, translated from the Russian by Valzhyna Mort.
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