The day after I found out my husband cheated, I licked a stripper’s titties.

The poems in On This Side of the Desert multiply and reimagine the borderland desert.

"The vacuum created by the end of communism required a complete restructuring of every person’s life: where and how we got food, what we read and watched, what we admired and what we believed was true."

"I will die on this hill, the hill that says: Everything that happens online is real. Online is reality, as much as meatspace."

They had sat there with all their worthy feelings about Zariyah Zhadan’s poetry, perversely enjoying the disruption of the recital by a finger circling the rim of a wine glass.

How could I not praise the Chinese grandmother / rocking her floral print tracksuit?

“After the fall of man, Eden was taken away and we humans have to cover our nakedness in compliance with our punishment. “

The strange afterlife of China’s largest working-class subculture

“while the aunties sit weaving an awful dress of effrontery / —and I wish we could be alive in several ways but this one”

After taking on gentrification in Denver, did a successful anti-gang activist become a target of law enforcement? An excerpt from journalist Julian Rubinstein's new book, The Holly.