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Toilet terror
The surprising matter revealed when we really look into the toilet and everything it stands for.
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The classic coffeehouse: Ten essentials
A visual tour of coffeehouses around the world by a connoisseur, with a few pointers of advice.
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The Mustachioed Woman of Shanghai. A novel.
Exotic woman unleashes the emotions in those she comes into contact with.
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Confucius and Opium: China Book Reviews
Book review essays tell China’s history over the past two centuries.
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The breasts of Bali: An update
Things are grim on the ground but the tradition lives on in pictures.
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Multilingualism and the time travel novel
Writers who play carelessly with time may leave the language in tatters.
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American massage
After long experience in East and Southeast Asia, the author turns his attention to the massage scene in his home country.
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The Kitchens of Canton. A novel
Dystopian satire distilling the worst of our present and future into a strangely seductive maze of a story.
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Massage diary: Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam
Wending my way through Mekong River territory to sample some of the world’s most varied massage offerings.
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Facebook, rococo vulvas, and the pornographic imagination
What happens when wayward algorithms are allowed to censor content on social media.
ISHAM COOK 