Balancing Frogs

Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside by Quincy Carroll I live in Asia and I teach English. This colored my reactions to Quin...

I rewatched the six half-hour episodes of the old 1981 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy BBC TV show, inspired by this article . I  had...

We visited Armenia and Georgia this year. Prior to our trip, I didn’t have too many preconceived notions of life on the ground there, exce...

I read a bunch of books in May and June while traveling outside of Taiwan. I dipped a bit into non-fiction, including two by Bill Brys...

Taiwan: A Political History by Denny Roy I'm trying to read more books about Taiwan, alternating between fiction and non-fiction...

There will be nothing about Taiwan here. But that's OK. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson Suddenly, the moon blows up, wh...

A Pail of Oysters by Vern Sneider In 1953, American journalist Vern Sneider published his novel A Pail of Oysters to acquaint W...

Party Members By Arthur Meursault This is a satirical novel about a lowly Chinese bureaucrat whose penis starts talking one day and beg...

History of Rome Volume I: The Republic by Mike Duncan For me, this book was a review of material already covered. Practically all t...

Welcome Home, Master: Covering East Asia in the Twilight of Old Media By J. D. Adams J. D. Adams’ memoir of his years as a Taiwan-base...

Black Island By J. Michael Cole Black Island describes how the pivotal years 2013 and 2014 exposed the pitiful inadequacies in both the ...