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Poetry and Conflict

Joel Swann reflects on the contemporary poetry of unrest.

Selfie

Mike Cormack questions the ethics of contemporary selfie culture.

How to Kill a City

Stephen Lee Naish discusses the perks and perils of gentrification.

The Architecture of Neoliberalism

Alexandre Leskanich discusses contemporary architecture and its neoliberal compliance.

The Nagasaki Elder 

Adam Steiner reviews a new collection of poems dedicated to the survivors of nuclear holocaust.

Samuel Richardson and the Theory of Tragedy

Daniel Bristow discusses a seminal new book on Clarissa and theories of Tragedy from Lacan and Benjamin to Nietzsche and Hölderlin. 

Shanghai Faithful

Mike Cormack on a long history of a family from the Opium Wars to the present day.

The Salt Dress Inside Me – 我身體裏的鹽裙

Joel Swann’s epic series of 21 reviews of poetry published in Hong Kong continues with Kim Hyesoon’s short collection.

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