“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”
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
