I first wrote about these places in my 1971 book,* when such developments were in their infancy on the American urban landscape. My first actual encounter with one was when…
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When going through cities Go, I advise you In a stately manner Ride handsomely Head slightly bowed It’s not urbane To move without restraint And don’t stare at the height…
I’m not sure I should write this piece; after all, my mother is still alive (93), and can still read. But what the hell. Porn. It lurks and smirks on the…
Not being an aficionado of mystery genre I nearly passed on this European best seller and its investment of nearly 500 pages. But it contained two of my enduring, if…
I just happened to read these books in succession. I don’t review all the books I read, but I got to wondering if these two could be reviewed together. You…
One way of falling in love with China is first to fall in love with a Chinese woman. That is how it happened to Englishman Joseph Needham. It can happen…
When I first encountered Beijing the year after Tiananmen Square the streets still jingled with bicycle bells and he soft whirr of the chains of Flying Pigeon bicycles and the…
My old friend, Danny, much more techno-savvy than I will ever be, suggested recently that I might want to consider buying a Kindle, the digital book reader that it sold…
By way of some curious synaptic connection when, I first picked up this book, I had a reverie of a personal experience in the Chinese city of Xian many several…
It’s an odd title for a book that is mostly about Japan. But, then, the relationship between these two Asian states is an odd one. Japan can rightly credit its…