Casey Walker

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

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....
Casey WalkerDec 31, 2019
- Politics and Economics
Delight and Disgust: On the Contradictions and Complicities of Soccer
A new book on the poetics of soccer as lived experience....
Casey WalkerJul 13, 2018
- Philosophy
- Translation
Lisbon: Beyond What the Tourist Should See
Casey Walker on Fernando Pessoa, Teolinda Gersão, and the mysteries of Lisbon....
Casey WalkerNov 27, 2017
The Border Wall
Casey Walker offers a personal relation to Trump’s Wall....
Casey WalkerSep 17, 2016
- Politics and Economics
Ruined California
"Gold Fame Citrus" seldom expresses a sense of nostalgia or elegy for a lost California....
Casey WalkerNov 20, 2015
- Fiction
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’s shipyards in Amsterdam. In between shifts as a shipwright building the frigate Peter and Paul, he explores the ...
Casey WalkerFeb 24, 2013
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, I was very excited when I came up with what I thought was the perfect title for a novel: The ...
Casey WalkerMar 26, 2012
An Invitation to Forgetting
The specter of forgetting has haunted every advance we have made in externalizing our memories....
Casey WalkerAug 10, 2011
- Science & Technology
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....
Casey WalkerMay 30, 2011