Blog Author - Mary Dennis
/ – screech – / a printing press grinds to a halt / – click, slam – / a flip cellphone is opened then shut / it is the arrival of a new kind of book...
It may be summer, but the Mellow Parks crew can’t seem to get their minds off the snow. They’ve just released the teaser for Happy Niu Year- a...
Middle Cyclone by Neko Case
Neko Case has a voice made of dirt and wind. The earthy indie girl’s latest album of...
Zhang Li, a disgruntled security bag checker at the Xizhimen subway station, sits on a broken-down three-wheeled bike. Staring out angrily at the...
You can easily tell it’s summer in Beijing. There’s always loads more flesh on show. Admittedly, it’s usually potbellies poking out of elderly...
Ratatat's Mike Stroud does magic with a distortion pedal
It’s feels a little beside the point to write about the Ratatat...
The good people over at CNEX (short for China Next) love two things very much: China and documentaries.
Run by a group of Chinese from the mainland...
Amazon, that rock of literary reference, has betrayed us. Not intentionally, of course, but maybe you’ve been searching for books...
Here’s one to add to the list of China’s 2009 anniversa