Reading: Susan Mann – Precious Records: Women in China’s Long Eighteenth Century

Shortly before departing for Brussels, I finished Susan Mann’s brilliant The Talented Women of the Zhang Family, and began Gail Hershatter’s …

Reading: Norman Page – Auden and Isherwood – The Berlin Years

norman page – auden and isherwood – the berlin years

europe central

In another country, long enough ago to be only someone else’s life, I remember a summer entranced in my small …

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