Columbia University Press
Maybe finally we’re reaching the Natsume Sōseki moment in the English-speaking world.
Read MoreCarrie J. Preston refuses to characterize these cultural exchanges in moralistic or narrowly political terms.
Read MoreThe publication of de Baecque and Herpe’s wonderful biography needs to be followed in the USA by a complete Éric Rohmer retrospective.
Read MoreIf you are interested in how the architecture within American movie houses shaped the cinema and vice-versa, this often brilliant tome is an instant classic.
Read MoreAn exciting complement to the new book is a traveling retrospective of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s films, a rare opportunity to see 19 of the director’s movies shown on 35mm film: at Cambridge’s Harvard Film Archive through November 2.
Read MoreBy Bill Marx You want a racy, nineteenth-century epic about sex, sin, drugs, and prostitution set in China? Here it is. Two more pieces on international fiction for World Books, the feature I edit for PRI’s The World.
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