Mo Yan has made all of Chinese publishing more Franzen-ey
Chinese publishing is becoming more venal, more opportunistic, and more obsessed with the next Big Book. The entire industry seems to have a rather gross case of the Franzens, and… Read more »
Senator Rockefeller, don’t take our “.sucks”!
Over the past year, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization that controls the use of domain names on the web, has been in the process of… Read more »
Scrabble dictionary in search of new words
For the first time in nine years, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online Official Scrabble Players Dictionary is getting an update. Jennifer Schuessler writes for the New York Times that the first… Read more »
Tarkovsky’s Forever Fond Farewell
In 2012, while browsing through Eslite, Taipei’s twenty-four-hour bookstore, I found a book that would help me understand how to sit through an Andrei Tarkovsky film. It is called Bright, Bright… Read more »
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The Damned Utd
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An Exaggerated Murder
The Buenos Aires Quintet
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Cat Out of Hell
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Gnarr!
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The Dog Walker
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Rules for Werewolves
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