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A Brief Affair, by Alex Miller

A new book from Alex Miller is always an event on a booklover’s calendar.  Aw...

Netflix historical K-drama Under the Queen’s Umbrell...

Netflix period K-drama Under the Queen’s Umbrella charms us with political in...

Oscar-winning Chinese composer Tan Dun on why ‘Hong ...

Oscar-winning Chinese-American composer Tan Dun opens up about his new role a...

Misreading Ulysses

This text was delivered as the T.S. Eliot Lecture at the Abbey Theatre in Dub...

Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 6 — A Q&A Wit...

This interview, like the previous one in this series with Eileen Cheng-yin Ch...

Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 7 — A Q&A Wit...

This interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, academic editor of the new LARB Chin...

Sunset for a Blog and a Double Birthday

For several years, I’ve had the pleasure of co-editing this China Blog at BLA...

Disney says Asia-Pacific a ‘key pillar’ for next 100...

Disney pledges to increase its content creation and distribution in the Asia-...

The 13 best new Hollywood movies this winter, from C...

Creed III, John Wick: Chapter 4 and Scream 6 are just some of the film sequel...

Summer 1993: Walter Gieseking, Debussy’s Préludes I ...

Claude Monet, “Rouen Cathedral,West Façade, Sunlight,” 1894. Licensed under C...

Announcing Our Winter Issue

Friends sometimes ask me why I still bother going to the theater. It’s a fai...

Netflix K-drama review: Money Heist: Korea – Joint E...

Netflix K-drama set in the national mint in a unified Korea has lost some of ...

Filipino actress Dolly De Leon on her role in Triang...

At 53, Dolly De Leon has her breakout role in Cannes Palme d’Or winner Triang...

Septology, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls

Finer minds than mine have waxed eloquent about this book, but FWIW, I enjoye...

Robert Downey Jnr on Netflix portrait of his filmmak...

Streaming now on Netflix, Sr. is Robert Downey Jnr’s depiction of his auteur ...

Netflix movie review: Troll – Tomb Raider director’s...

Troll, directed and co-written by Tomb Raider director Roar Uthaug and set in...