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A Heart Out of Sync at the “Chaktomuk” in Cambodia
Farah Abdessamad poignantly details the Tonle Sap Lake’s slow death in her review of Abby Seiff’s book on the subject....
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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....
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....
Hernán Hoyos: The Sex Scribe of Cali
Kurt Hollander profiles the pioneering Hernán Hoyos, a breaker of literary taboos in Cali, Colombia....
Vladimir COVID: A Virtual Diary in a Week of Virtual War
Peter Pomerantsev ponders Vladimir Putin’s murky intentions towards Ukraine while confronting the uncertainty of a COVID....
Feast and Fight: A New Adaptation of “Samak the Ayar”
The tale of a Persian Robin Hood who hoodwinks his enemies yet keeps a stern moral code....
“Assa”: The Film that Brought Down the Soviet Union
Sam Kahn looks back at “Assa,” the 1987 cult film that put Soviet rock on the map. Its director, Sergei Solovyov, died on December 13, 2021....
The Camp and the City (Eastern Times/Western Times)
Into what system are migrants welcomed? What are the prescriptions of the request?...
Evocative Accounts of Soon-to-Vanish Sites: Recent — and Not So Recent — Hong Kong Poetry and Prose
Grappling with Hong Kong’s present and future via a bumper crop of fiction and poetry....
Linguistic Diversity in the Shadows of Empires: On James Griffiths’s “Speak Not”
Oliver Farry hears out “Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language” by James Griffiths....
Nobody Likes Dolphin Meat, but Times Are Hard
This story makes landfall, is beached, on April 4, 2021, but, really, the story begins earlier still: with the Atlantic Slave Trade and its long afterlives....
A Portrait and a Mirror: On “To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism”
What creates conditions for a dictatorship? The daily indignities that force people to turn to a messiah-despot....
The “Brave Face” of Kashmiri Women: A Conversation with Farah Bashir
Nafeesa Syeed interviews Farah Bashir about her book about growing up female in the 1990s during the war in Kashmir, “Rumours of Spring.”...
Utopia’s Settler Colonialism Problem
Jessica Namakkal interrogates the settler colonial impulses behind 20th-century utopias like Auroville, India....
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