Casey Walker is the author of the novel Last Days in Shanghai. He is at work on a novel about the US-Mexico border.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

The Deadly Myth of the Border
Casey Walker considers "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America" by Greg Grandin....

Delight and Disgust: On the Contradictions and Complicities of Soccer
A new book on the poetics of soccer as lived experience....

Lisbon: Beyond What the Tourist Should See
Casey Walker on Fernando Pessoa, Teolinda Gersão, and the mysteries of Lisbon....

The Border Wall
Casey Walker offers a personal relation to Trump’s Wall....

Ruined California
"Gold Fame Citrus" seldom expresses a sense of nostalgia or elegy for a lost California....

The Costs of Cosmopolitanism: On Daniel Brook's "A History of Future Cities"
IN THE WANING YEARS of the 17th century, a young apprentice from Moscow begins work at the Dutch East India Company&...

The Questionnaire: Casey Walker
Title of the book you're probably never going to write, but would kind of like to get around to? Years ago, ...

An Invitation to Forgetting
The specter of forgetting has haunted every advance we have made in externalizing our memories....

Keys to the City
It is neither an accident nor a disaster that humanity is now, for the first time in its history, a predominantly urban species....
