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The Dream of Han Innocence
Guldana Salimjan reviews “To the Wonder,” the Chinese TV drama that has taken audiences by storm.
Cultural Studies
"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil
No Justice, No Peace
Arvind Dilawar reviews Qamar-ul Huda’s “Reenvisioning Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Islam.”
America’s War on Theater
Daniel Blank reviews James Shapiro’s “The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War.”
Punishing the People We Claim to Protect
Gaby Del Valle reviews Kimberly Meyer’s “Accidental Sisters” and Susan J. Terrio’s “Forced Out.”
Flying Right up to the Sun
Katya Apekina interviews Priyanka Mattoo about her memoir “Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones.”
Eurovision in Wartime
Lina Abascal reports from the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden.
Mirror Images: Disabled Writers on Frida Kahlo
Jess Libow explores how disabled writers have taken up Frida Kahlo’s image and legacy.
The Myth America Show
Josie Torres Barth reviews Molly A. Schneider’s “Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture.”
Tales of Transformation in China
Pallavi Aiyar explores how the youth navigate the precarity of contemporary China in her review of two new books by Alec Ash and Yuan Yang.
A Disproportionate Display of Force: The Lure of Epic Rage
Torsa Ghosal discusses Dev Patel’s film “Monkey Man” and the problematic politics of revenge.
Poor Reading, Weak Theory: An Excerpt from “The Amateur”
LARB presents an excerpt from Saikat Majumdar’s “The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony.”
“Chinatown” at 50, or Seeing Oil Through Cinema
Michael Rubenstein writes on the 50th anniversary of “Chinatown” and the beginning of the end of petromodernity.
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