
Literary disruptions of an American in China.
Literary disruptions of an American in China.
After long experience in East and Southeast Asia, the author turns his attention to the massage scene in his home country.
Dystopian satire distilling the worst of our present and future into a strangely seductive maze of a story.
Wending my way through Mekong River territory to sample some of the world’s most varied massage offerings.
Satirical review of the latest addition to Chinese socialist realist fiction.
What happens when wayward algorithms are allowed to censor content on social media.
Isham Cook’s latest books and blogs and other news on related topics.
Essays on Western culture ranging from the last Ice Age to the Renaissance to contemporary America’s obsessions and hysterias.
The conventional history of English force-fed to university students benefits no one but the academic textbook business and its tired stakeholders.
Only a perverted and schizophrenic society dangles sexual temptations to ever-younger people and punishes them brutally.
An atheist patiently explains why most atheists are really believers in disguise.
Historical novel set during Taiping Rebellion cultivates a richly textured English, while another captures Sir Robert Hart’s love for a Chinese woman.
The exponential growth in international tourism seen in the context of European travel and tourism stretching back a millennium.
What happens to writing when it’s fed through the political correctness machine.
England was home to the first great school of classical chamber music, preceding the Viennese School of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven by two centuries.