Rudd is, as this elegantly written book demonstrates, a preeminent scholar of China who has produced an in-depth exploration of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s worldview and the dramatic impact it has had ...

His repertoire also included comic and erotic novels and literary criticism. As one of Latin America’s foremost ... In the ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

It’s March, and Batya Ungar-Sargon is appearing on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher for the third time. She has flown from her ...

It follows Estonian refugee Lydia and her Marxist literary critic husband Sebastian, who both previously worked in wartime intelligence, and the arrival of Lydia’s admirer, a best-selling American ...

England, 1973. Estonian refugee Lydia and her Marxist literary critic husband Sebastian both worked in wartime intelligence. They excel at keeping secrets – from friends, from each other ...

Gott claims that this ground-up approach to imperial history is new, but Marxist and other left-leaning historians have been extolling the virtues of subaltern history for years. In fact, Gott’s ...

In a 2005 documentary made on his life by a Norwegian admirer of his work, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, one of the greatest literary chroniclers ... The political criticism was always subtle and wisely ...