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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.

The Dancing Girl & the Turtle

Beverly Ngai reviews new historical fiction, exploring the oppressive patriarchy of 1930s Shanghai.

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