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Literary disruptions of an American in China.

American massage

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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

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Dystopian satire distilling the worst of our present and future into a strangely seductive maze of a story.

Massage diary: Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam

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Wending my way through Mekong River territory to sample some of the world’s most varied massage offerings.

Updating the great Chinese socialist realist novel

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Satirical review of the latest addition to Chinese socialist realist fiction.

Facebook, rococo vulvas, and the pornographic imagination

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What happens when wayward algorithms are allowed to censor content on social media.

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American Rococo: Essays on the Edge

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Essays on Western culture ranging from the last Ice Age to the Renaissance to contemporary America’s obsessions and hysterias.

Anglish and English: Why our language is 750 and not 1,500 years old

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The conventional history of English force-fed to university students benefits no one but the academic textbook business and its tired stakeholders.

An American talisman

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Only a perverted and schizophrenic society dangles sexual temptations to ever-younger people and punishes them brutally.

My problem with the atheists (it’s not what you think)

By Isham Cook on November 8, 2016 • ( 8 Comments )

An atheist patiently explains why most atheists are really believers in disguise.

Living the Taiping

By Isham Cook on August 27, 2016 • ( 5 Comments )

Historical novel set during Taiping Rebellion cultivates a richly textured English, while another captures Sir Robert Hart’s love for a Chinese woman.

From Van Gogh to the Camino de Santiago: Symbolic travel and the modern pilgrim

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The exponential growth in international tourism seen in the context of European travel and tourism stretching back a millennium.

The literature of paralysis: The China PC scene and the expat mag crowd

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What happens to writing when it’s fed through the political correctness machine.

John Dowland and the lost English Consort School of chamber music

By Isham Cook on March 30, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

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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