Books for Biden: Reading Recommendations Linked to “Global China in an Anxious Age” (UC Irvine, February 25–26)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom and three participants in an upcoming event at UC Irvine recommend essential books on China to President Biden.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom and three participants in an upcoming event at UC Irvine recommend essential books on China to President Biden.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom and three participants in an upcoming event at UC Irvine recommend essential books on China to President Biden.
Contemporary authors select their most “cherished” albums.
Just as the film Contagion has found a second life with news of the coronavirus outbreak, so too are novels about epidemics popping up on reading...
Just as the film Contagion has found a second life with news of the coronavirus outbreak, so too are novels about epidemics popping up on reading...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom documents and reflects on the recent protests in Hong Kong.
The ongoing threats to free expression in Hong Kong, which are again in the headlines, need to be placed in a long-term historical context.
Twain's and Yu's oeuvres are filled with works that demonstrate their keen eye for the small dramas of everyday life and keen ear for linguistic...
On the parallels between the way the Pope and the "Chairman of Everything" have been framed as public figures.
"I'm used to Hong Kong streets being noisy; instead it was eerily silent."
Following the News in 1900 and 2014
AND THE CITY SWALLOWED THEM, a foray into true crime reportage by the versatile and talented Mara Hvistendahl, a writer previously known for her...