Clips
“Kung Fu Is a Store of Infinite Fun: Reading Jin Yong in Translation, Part I”
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, February 2024
"Feelings Can Creep Up Just Like That" — Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love Revisited
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, December 2023
Will in the World: Alexa Alice Joubin's Shakespeare and East Asia
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, November 2023
Qigang Chen Brings Fresh “Joy” to Lunar New Year Celebration
Interlude, February 2023
A Historically Cosmopolitan, Mixed Culture: Hou Hsiao-Hsien's World of Tang China
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, October 2021
Sharp Enough to Cut Deep: Deborah Eisenberg's Your Duck Is My Duck
Chicago Review of Books, October 2018
The Novel That Defined Jazz Age Berlin
Chicago Review of Books, March 2018
The Maestro and His Double: Haruki Murakami’s Absolutely on Music
December 2016
July 2016
Shostakovich Slips the Noose: Quatuor Debussy and Circa at BAM
December 2015
Things Fall Apart: Timur and the Dime Museum at BAM
November 2015
Old-Fashioned Instruments, Up-to-the-Minute Sounds: Colleen at SubCulture
July 2015
About Last Night: Virgil Thomson’s Music Chronicles 1940 – 1954
February 2015
Uusinta at the 2014 MATA Festival of New Music
June 2014
Four Episodes from Robert Ashley’s Vidas Perfectas
May 2014
Jonathan Cott, Dinner With Lenny: The Last Long Interview With Leonard Bernstein
February 2014
Stephen Walsh, Musorgsky and His Circle: A Russian Musical Adventure
February 2014
John Updike Gives the Mundane Its Beautiful Due
November 2013
The Connoisseur of Crime, John D. MacDonald, and The End of the Night
September 2013
Her Life to Live: Albertine Sarrazin’s Astragal
July 2013
Nikolai Leskov Gets His Due in New Collection, The Enchanted Wanderer
May 2013
Baudelaire’s Paris and Calasso’s Baudelaire
April 2013
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, author of The Mirror of Beauty
Ayesha Jalal, author of The Pity of Partition
DJ and scenester Ashu Rai
Violinist Jennifer Koh
Frances Pritchett, translator of Basti by Intizar Husain
Tarun J. Tejpal, author of The Story of My Assassins
Musharraf Ali Farooqi, author of Between Clay and Dust
Chitra Ganesh, visual artist
Motoyuki Shibata, translator and editor of the journal Monkey Business
Keshni Kashyap, author of Tina’s Mouth
William Dalrymple, author of The Last Mughal and City of Djinns