Haiku, the short Japanese poem now proliferating overseas, scarcely needs an introduction anymore. Its three great pillars, widely read even...
Day: October 1, 2013
Monique Brinson Demery reviews Finding The Dragon Lady: The Mystery Of Vietnam’s Madame Nhu in Maclean's The original Dragon Lady was...
Afghanistan three weeks after 9/11 (LARB) “In America, do men beat their wives?” The Afghans find us as exotic as...
Japan is a safe, polite society in which occasionally hyper-violent crimes are committed that shock the world. They do not...
A story of race and caste in the Midlands is a satirical masterpiece, says Melissa Katsoulis, in The Telegraph, UK...
Nightmare Range: The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short Stories by Martin Limon reviewed in NPR At the end of the Korean...
Novelist Zhang Wei has become a literary icon in China thanks to his prolific but diligent work, and his writing...
Chinese writer hoping to deepen exchanges between China and Western countries through filmmaking Ya Ding is a man of many...
