Writers who play carelessly with time may leave the language in tatters.
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Multilingualism and the time travel novel
American fascism: The sexual rage of the state
The U.S. sexual surveillance state horror.
The expat and the prostitute: Four classic novels, 1956-62
Reviews of McKenna’s The Sand Pebbles, Mason’s The World of Suzie Wong, Arsan’s Emmanuelle, and Reynolds’ A Woman from Bangkok.
Isham Cook on Twitter
Novelist, essayist, satirist, literary provocateur, polyamorous pansexual China-based anti-Trump American expat.
American massage
After long experience in East and Southeast Asia, the author turns his attention to the massage scene in his home country.
The Kitchens of Canton. A novel
Dystopian satire distilling the worst of our present and future into a strangely seductive maze of a story.
Foreign devils on the loose in China: A review
How Quincy Carroll’s Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside stacks up against other recent China expat classics.
