The Beauty of Travel Writing Adventurers, explorers, travellers – whatever you wish to call them – have been documenting their discoveries and experiences for hundreds of years. Setting...
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The Beauty of Travel Writing Adventurers, explorers, travellers – whatever you wish to call them – have been documenting their discoveries and experiences for hundreds of years. Setting...
Written by Annie Ernaux | Translated by Tanya Leslie It can be a tall order to expect, or even demand, of someone respect for the past. For example, telling a modern-day British woman that she must...
The Collected Schizophrenias byEsmé Weijun Wang In this moving collection of essays on living with schizophrenia, Esmé Weijun Wang looks back at her own life; examines the cultural zeitgeist...
How the World Thinks | Written by Julian Baggini It is very easy for people to believe that their way of thinking is the right way. This can stretch from something as simple as a husband and wife...
‘All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.’ The subject of history is one that concerns politics, economics, and philosophy. Lessons from the past teach us how to proceed into the...
Japan Story by Christopher Harding For any curious lover of history, searching for an enlightening but comprehensive history of Japan, there are many places to look. Just last year, Jonathan Clements...
Written by Yu Hua | Translated by Allan H. Barr. Censorship in China One thing that is globally known about China, and is undeniably true, is its strict censorship laws and the control which the...
Written by Alex Kerr | Translated by Bodhi Fishman Japan Today Wherever you were born and raised, you know that World War II changed everything. You may not have been alive before WWII to know this...
In an interview with fivebooks.com, Yiyun Li discussed the concept of the ‘anti-memoir’. This term came around because, as Li put it in the interview, “[…] there has to be a ‘before’ and an...
Before I lived in Tokyo and Seoul, I lived in Shanghai. Expats and locals alike in Tokyo and Seoul have joked with me more than once about the harshness of Chinese culture and the unpleasantness of...
