Around the World

"For a long time now I haven't been I."

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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  The Sideways Gaze: Roland Barthes’s Travels in China

  A unique record of Barthes’s failure to offer a portrait of China.

  Dora ZhangJun 23, 2012

  • Around the World

  • Literary Criticism

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  Pilgrims Digress: Gideon Lewis-Kraus' "A Sense of Direction"

  Zeke TurnerJun 8, 2012

  • Around the World

  • Nonfiction