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The film – and this highly-anticipated book’s text – serve as iconoclastic responses to the lack of political engagement with the AIDS crisis

Taipei R.F. Kuang and unpicks backstories of theFrom one of this generation's most talked about young writers comes a novel about failed relationships, drug induced depression, marriage, and death. Taipei is an ode or lament to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into an unexpected