“The Last Rant”
“Country People”
“The Teacher of the Future”
“The Future is a Different Country: On William Gibson”
“The Book in the High Castle: On "The I Ching: A Biography"”
“Beyond the Electric Fence: One Man's Odyssey from North Korea to the West”
“China’s Singular Sexual Revolution”
“What is Hong Kong? On the Archaeology of an Imaginary City”
“Through the Inverted Telescope: On Pankaj Mishra's "From the Ruins of Empire"”
“Oh, To Be Japanese!”
“Eye of the Tube: Behind the Scenes at Beijing’s TV Network”
“Through the Mirror: Claude Lévi-Strauss in Japan”
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
