Tag: Literature

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Book Review: 1616 – Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu’s China edited by Tian Yuan Tan, Paul Edmonson, and Shih Pe Wang

July 27, 2022
1616 - Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China edited by Tian Yuan Tan

A while back, the In Our Time podcast made an episode on Li Bai and Du Fu, two very famous Chinese poets. One of the guests was Tian Yuan Tan, whose accent sounded rather familiar – and then it hit me, he was from Singapore! So I looked up his work and saw a book… Read More Book Review: 1616 – Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu’s China edited by Tian Yuan Tan, Paul Edmonson, and Shih Pe Wang

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The Possessed by Elif Batuman

April 24, 2019
The Possessed by Elif Batuman

Even though I’ve only read a few works of Russian literature (mostly the most well-known of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky’s novels), I thought The Possessed sounded interesting and that I might learn a little about Russian literature. What I didn’t expect was to be so entertained throughout this account of Batuman’s gradute years studying Russian literature.… Read More The Possessed by Elif Batuman