The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

Zhu Xuanwen is a strikingly handsome, highly intelligent, and incredibly wealthy man who seems to have it all. However, he suffers from a neurosis stemming from a childhood car accident, believing he ...

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and ...

After failing the music exam, Wang Xiaoyu hides at home but accidentally gets pulled into the drama she was watching. While trying to fix it, she unintentionally disrupts the drama and eventually ...

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's serio-comic portrait of small-town America, is published in 1955 in France by the Olympia Press. It has been rejected by four American publishers who are terrified of its ...