Rebecca Liao is a corporate attorney and writer based in Silicon Valley. She contributes to The Atlantic, N+1, Dissent Magazine, The New Inquiry, the LA Review of Books, Tea Leaf Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco Classical Voice. A graduate of Stanford University, where she studied Economics, and Harvard Law School, she founded The Aleph Mag, a digital magazine about art, culture, and Chinese law and politics. Rebecca is a jazz and opera singer and remains active in the California Bay Area classical music scene. She tweets at @beccaliao.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Ai Weiwei Reconsiders Himself
Ai Weiwei rebels against the idea the art matters less than the persona and views of the artist himself....
Pynchon’s Launch Party
Pynchon’s literary career has shared more with the dehumanizing ethos of Silicon Valley than has been recognized. Siri is a Pynchon character....
In the Year of the Dragon: China’s 2012
A look back at the year, with an eye toward global domination by 2030...
Fashion and the Romantic
On fashion's long love affair with Romanticism...
