Only a perverted and schizophrenic society dangles sexual temptations to ever-younger people and punishes them brutally.
Advertisements
An American talisman
My problem with the atheists (it’s not what you think)
An atheist patiently explains why most atheists are really believers in disguise.
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.
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.
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.
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.
