Semantics and Nutrition 語義和營養

Joel Swann continues his series of 21 reviews of the powerful Poetry and Conflict box set by Chinese University of Hong Kong Continue reading →

The Slow Professor

Stephen Lee Naish reviews a new book about speed and academia, discussing representations of the university on film in comparison with Continue reading →

Not Written Words 不是文字

Yunwen Gao reviews Xi Xi’s Not Written Words discussing the sounds of poetry and the art of translation. XI XI 西西, Not Continue reading →

HKRB Interviews: Rachel Price

Derick Varn discusses shifting nature of Cuban arts and literature with Rachel L. Price, professor in the department of Spanish Continue reading →

HKRB ESSAYS: VR and The Empathy Machine

Edwin Montoya Zorrilla discusses how Virtual Reality could transform and reprogram our relationship to empathy for good and for bad, Continue reading →

We Want Everything

Steffanie Ling reviews Nanni Balestrini’s new Verso novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969, discussing Marxism and worker solidarity then and now. Continue reading →

Track Changes

Francis Russell returns to the HKRB to review a literary history of word processing, discussing what it means to be a Continue reading →

White Sands

Nicole Mansour reviews Geoff Dyer’s new novel White Sands, giving a appraisal of its literary merits. Geoff Dyer, White Sands: Experiences from the Continue reading →