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Isham Cook’s latest books and blogs and other news on related topics.
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American Rococo: Essays on the Edge
Essays on Western culture ranging from the last Ice Age to the Renaissance to contemporary America’s obsessions and hysterias.
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Anglish and English: Why our language is 750 and not 1,500 years old
The conventional history of English force-fed to university students benefits no one but the academic textbook business and its tired stakeholders.
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An American talisman
Only a perverted and schizophrenic society dangles sexual temptations to ever-younger people and punishes them brutally.
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My problem with the atheists (it’s not what you think)
An atheist patiently explains why most atheists are really believers in disguise.
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From Van Gogh to the Camino de Santiago: Symbolic travel and the modern pilgrim
The exponential growth in international tourism seen in the context of European travel and tourism stretching back a millennium.
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John Dowland and the lost English Consort School of chamber music
England was home to the first great school of classical chamber music, preceding the Viennese School of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven by two centuries.
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Why Airbnb ain’t my cup of tea
The ambiguous host/guest boundary in many Airbnb households makes for most inhospitable stays.
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Macau and the writer: A photo essay
Photo essay of old Macau with nudes and choice literary quotations.
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At the Teahouse Café: Essays from the Middle Kingdom
What decades of living in China have taught this American expat.
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