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Ross Perlin

is a writer and linguist based in Brooklyn. His first book, Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy, was published by Verso in 2011.

Essays & Reviews

Philosophers of Babel

By Ross PerlinMay 9, 2014
The Dictionary of Untranslatables offers proof that ideas like “democracy,” “revolution,” “politics,” and even “existence” translate easily from County Cork to Kyiv
Essays & Reviews

Party Time

By Ross PerlinMarch 28, 2013
Calendars and timezones are anything but standardized in China
Essays & Reviews

Party TV

By Ross PerlinDecember 4, 2012
China Central Television is the most important television network you’ve never heard of, but not for long...
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