Cool, folks, cool, the first part of a wonderful story by Massoud Hayoun, an Arab-American who went to China at the age of 19 to learn Mand...

...and repost our piece about his 18th sonnet: (So, it starts:) Since we are a literature blog now, we have to do serious stuff, like po...

Upfront update: This is really getting embarrassing folks---we're getting so many hits for this post, possibly because people think: ...

Yes, we know. Something went wrong with the link. So we have to write our own Book on Averages now. Won't be easy. But we know already....