The Dancing Girl & the Turtle
Beverly Ngai reviews new historical fiction, exploring the oppressive patriarchy of 1930s Shanghai.
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For the Children?
MH discusses children in the US prison system, the racial biases evident in incarceration patterns and the idea of a world without prisons.
Void Studies
Derick Varn explores musical poetry.
Strange Labyrinth
Marcel Krueger confesses his cowardice over finding himself lost on a woodland trail.
Against Empathy
Angus Reoch considers the dominance of empathy within capitalist ethics.
How History Works
Alexandre Leskanich discusses the validity of history, interrogates the importance placed on ‘historicizing’ and argues that the production of history is itself capitalist.
Irreverent Poems for Pretentious People
Jeremy Simmons considers a new volume of poetry from Hong Kong, which reveals the pretentiousness in all of us.
The Last Gods of Indochine
Tse Hao Guang 謝皓光 reviews a new ‘adventure story for the backpacker age’, discussing dangerous representations of ‘mysterious’ Indochina and the postcolonial issues surrounding even the most contemporary East-West clashes.
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