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Why Am I Brown? South Asian Fiction and Pandering to Western Audiences
Publishers have decided Western readers want cliché-heavy, lunch-buffet fiction that’s easy to digest and doesn’t contain too many weird ingredients....
Jabeen AkhtarSep 20, 2014
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“I Wanted the Reader to Feel Unsafe”: The Provocations of Christos Tsiolkas
New from "Around the World"...
Jeffrey ZuckermanSep 19, 2014
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Driving Toward the Chinese Dream
Golf is prohibited in China, so the party leaders play under fake names and the 100 new golf courses a year are called eco/fitness centers....
Maura Elizabeth CunninghamSep 15, 2014
- Sports
- Translation
The Other Vietnam Syndrome
A Korean take on the dirty business of the Vietnam War....
John FefferSep 8, 2014
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Lost in the Way of the City
In his most recent novel, acclaimed Nepali American writer Samrat Upadhyay brings the conflict between village and city to life in the form of a determined, incestuous character named Didi....
Oindrila MukherjeeSep 1, 2014
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Best Friends and Worst Enemies: Years of the Dog in South Africa
Dogs in South African politics, culture, and literature....
Imraan CoovadiaAug 29, 2014
- Translation
One Click Away
Co-writing on opposite sides of the world....
Joyce YarrowAug 23, 2014
- Translation
Europe’s Long Journey: How the EU Lacks Alternatives, Perspectives, and Solidarity
New from "Around the World"...
Andrea MammoneAug 19, 2014
- Translation
The Role of Host Communities in North Lebanon
"New from Around the World"...
Helen MackreathAug 17, 2014
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The Built Landscape
From "Around the World"...
Macduff EvertonJul 31, 2014
- Translation
Report From the Flatlands of Statistics
From "Around the World"...
Mathilde Walter ClarkJul 29, 2014
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On the Gaza Border
102 dead, 600 injured...
Ben EhrenreichJul 11, 2014
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The Necessary Language of the Everyday: On Reading Wang Anyi
WANG ANYI is one of China’s best-known writers, a reputation she cemented with her novel The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (1995)....
Anjum HasanDec 21, 2013
- Fiction
- Translation
The Theater of Cruelty: Jiwei Xiao on Mo Yan’s 'Sandalwood Death'
DISSONANT SOUNDS inspired Nobel-prize-winning Chinese author Mo Yan’s standout novel, Sandalwood Death (originally published in China in 2001, and translated in 2012 by Howard Goldblatt). The roar of trains passing through his hometown, Gaomi, and the wail of the local ...
Jiwei XiaoDec 21, 2013
- Fiction
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China and the Nobel IV
Part IV of our series on China and the Nobel Prize for Literature. LARB's Asia editors Megan Shank and Jeffrey Wasserstrom asked a number of prominent writers and critics to discuss their choices for the Nobel Prize in Literature. We published ...
Megan Shank, Jeffrey WasserstromDec 21, 2013
- Fiction
- Translation
“Walls Are Not Everlasting”: Preserving the East Side Gallery in Berlin
The integrity of the East Side Gallery, an especially artistic section of the Berlin Wall, is under threat. Should it be saved?...
Esther YiDec 19, 2013
- Art
- Translation
The Friends of the Museum
The Museum of Innocence is 500 days old; the things in the shops around it are older....
Kaya GençDec 8, 2013
- Fiction
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Understanding Pakistan’s History
The origins of Pakistan in the idea of a Muslim homeland....
Hannah Harris GreenDec 2, 2013
- History
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Forty Years in the Desert
A one-day strike in Israel...
Ben EhrenreichJul 22, 2013
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The Gaza Poetry Roundtable: Part III
Palestinian and Israeli Poets in Conversation...
Dara Barnat, Fady Joudah, Marcela Sulak, Tala Abu RahmehDec 2, 2012
Letter from Australia
What American publication means to Australian writers...
Sam Twyford MooreJun 25, 2012
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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
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Pilgrims Digress: Gideon Lewis-Kraus' "A Sense of Direction"
David fished a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it for me. "Of course you're having a crisis. Look, everybody is having a crisis all of the time. You either feel like you're too tied up and thus prevented from ...
Zeke TurnerJun 8, 2012
- Nonfiction
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Egyptian Spring
By gathering emblematic tweets, an important slice of the Revolution is organized and clarified through well-established editorial procedures....
Graham HarmanJun 14, 2011
- Politics and Economics
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