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Power in Paris

Can the earth be saved by bureaucrats in long meetings, reciting jargon and acronyms while surrounded by leaning towers of documents? That is what’s supposed to happen in France this…

By László Krasznahorkai, from Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens, a travel memoir that will be published next month by Seagull Books. Krasznahorkai won the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.…

The New China Syndrome

by Barry C. Lynn,

American business meets its new master

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by Richard John Seymour,

Beijing Capital International Airport (detail)

by Chi Yin Sim,

Watched Words

From Internet search terms blocked by the Chinese government since 2011. The terms were compiled and translated by the China Digital Times, a bilingual Chinese-media-tracking site based in California.

Under Western Eyes

by John Gray,

By John Gray, adapted from an article in the October 2014 issue of Prospect. Gray is the author of many books, including False Dawn, Straw Dogs, and The Silence of…

Wild Pigeon

by Carolyn Drake,

A Fan’s Note

by Njong Emmanuel Tohnain,

From a letter dated June 15, 2012, discovered in a Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag by a customer. This year, a man claiming to be the author was identified by…

Into Africa

by Howard W. French,

By Howard W. French, from China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa, published this month by Knopf. French is a former New York…

Shanxi

by Xiaogang Zhang,

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Power in Paris

Road to Nowhere

The New China Syndrome

(Untitled)

Beijing Capital International Airport (detail)

Watched Words

Under Western Eyes

Wild Pigeon

A Fan’s Note

Into Africa

Shanxi

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Power in Paris

Road to Nowhere

The New China Syndrome

(Untitled)

Beijing Capital International Airport (detail)

Watched Words

Under Western Eyes

Wild Pigeon

A Fan’s Note

Into Africa

Shanxi

April 2014

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