Reviews of McKenna’s The Sand Pebbles, Mason’s The World of Suzie Wong, Arsan’s Emmanuelle, and Reynolds’ A Woman from Bangkok.
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The expat and the prostitute: Four classic novels, 1956-62
Isham Cook on Twitter
Novelist, essayist, satirist, literary provocateur, polyamorous pansexual China-based anti-Trump American expat.
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.
Lotus: Updating the great Chinese socialist realist novel
Satirical review of the latest addition to Chinese socialist realist fiction.
The 1.3 billion-strong temper tantrum: Review of Arthur Meursault’s Party Members
Why this vicious satire of contemporary China that’s causing readers to gag had to be written.
Living the Taiping: Interview with James Lande
Lande’s historical novel set during the Taiping Rebellion cultivates a richly textured and musical English.
The literature of paralysis: The China PC scene and the expat mag crowd
What happens to writing when it’s fed through the political correctness machine.
