Domestic Dirt
There are few things more disturbing than the taking over of politics by uninformed emotion. One thing that actually is more disturbing is when media are using ...
Month: April 2008
Strange Movies from the Past (I): A Man and a Woman
“Un homme et une femme” by Claude Lelouch is a very stylish french movie from 1966. It’s a straightforward love story about two widowers who m...
Inconsequentiality
When some three years ago, during a lazy afternoon in Beijing’s Bookworm café (still on the old premises), I laid my hands on a copy of Granta No. 42, an ...
Taking Stock
It’s time to get Orchis Tower going again, after an involuntary break induced by an overflow of other, teaching-related work. Followed up on my China feed...