Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Jemes Besse on new media, conversation and technological design.
HONG KONG REVIEW OF BOOKS 香港書評
Critical Theory, Philosophy, Literature – Reviews, Essays, Interviews
Betraying Big Brother
Chloe Lim reviews Leta Hong-Fincher’s second book on women in today’s China.
Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason
Thomas L. Lynn, Jr. reviews David Harvey’s new work on the madness of capitalism.
Venus as a Bear
Chloe Lim reviews Vahni Capildeo’s eclectic and irreverent collection of poems.
Eye Level
M. Drew Williams reviews a stunning collection of poetry by the outrageously talented Chinese-born American poet, Jenny Xie.
A Serf’s Journal
Grafton Tanner reviews a memoir that looks at the working conditions of big industry – how corporatism breaks, imprisons, and sometimes kills its workers.
These Things Here and Now
Claire Qian reviews a volume that considers the role of poetry in times of trauma.
An Eden of Danger
Bob Duffy reviews Lauren Groff’s Florida, a new collection of artful, brooding narratives hinging on themes of abandonment and isolation.
