The Hunted
Elmore Leonard
An unfortunate bit of timing has our hero captured in a front page story standing amidst the rubble of a hotel bombing.
The River Between
Ngugi wa Thiong'O
Set in colonial Kenya and centered on the conflict between traditional Kikuyu culture and the influences of British colonialism and Christianity, The River Between is one of Ngugi wa Thiong'O's first novels.
Things Become Other Things
Craig Mod
The walk and the environs are the stage settings for the people Mod encounters, who share this forgotten land south of Nara - the Kii peninsula.
Speedboat
Renata Adler
There is a vibrant quality running through the narrator's life that I would equate to a good noir detective novel that keeps the page-turning pace up, with the occasional weirdo wandering into the story (more than a few times)
Trademarks and Symbols of the World
Yasaburo Kuwayama
Yasaburō Kuwayama's (桑山弥三郎), work has stood out since the early 1970s as a visual reference for designers of logos, trademarks, and symbols.
Ralph Fiennes' Four Quartets
Fiennes' production in which the poem is the script, performed in a theatre with subtle changes of light, and accompanied by film interludes of the locations associated with the poem's four sections.
Zebra Dove
The zebra dove (斑姬地鸠) is found on the Thai-Malay peninsula to Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.
Sooty-headed bulbul
The sooty-headed bulbul is one of the more common birds seen in the wilds of Hong Kong.
Greater green leaf bird
There's the green leaf bird and then there's the greater green leaf bird. I think one is bigger than the other.
Hitch-22
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens reflects on his upbringing, the influences that shaped him, and the philosophical foundations of his worldview.
Quicksand
Junichiro Tanizaki
Quicksand is a silkily nuanced novel of erotic gamesmanship and obsession.
The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy
A novella that is the confession of Pozdnyshev, a man who recounts the tragic unraveling of his life and marriage. Very Russian fare.
The War Against Cliché
Martin Amis
Essays on the intricacies of literature, focusing on the importance of originality, and the tremendous lack thereof.
Tseng Kwong Chi photos now at M+
Tseng Kwong Chi
Hong Kong–born photographer Tseng Kwong Chi (曾廣智) began his influential black-and-white self-portraits in 1979…
Josephine the Singer
Franz Kafka
Narrated by fellow mouse, who reflects on Josephine's (a mouse) significance within their society.
