Shanghai Jenny Offill from the duke’s drawing-room to

from the duke’s drawing-room to the lowliest chophouse

Francis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'

Ministry of Moral Panic is an extraordinary debut collection and the introduction of a revelatory new voice

a cart of scavenged food—and each other

the story centers on Bassanio's wish to win Portia's fortune and favor

Shanghai Jenny Offill from the duke’s drawing-room toShanghai at the turn of the twentieth century was the place to be. Opium was all the rage, parties were wild, and decadence was a way of life. Journalist Stella Dong looks back on a city that in its heyday was a thrilling combination of Las Vegas, the Wild West, Paris in the '20s, and Chicago during Prohibition. She captures the excitement of its most notorious years the decades before Mao's revolution when the city was populated with bankers,