Monday, April 30 2012
Enjoy Orientalism-Lite with ‘Stranger Magic’
Stranger Magic is an exhaustive compendium of the various tales in the Arabian Nights collection, as well as a robust and energetic investigation into how these stories of “Oriental” myth and folklore have seeped into the European imagination from the 18th century onward.
Tuesday, February 17 2009
One Morning Like a Bird by Andrew Miller
The writers' reflections on Japanese identity are never undertaken in isolation from the world -- they are informed by a strong awareness of the world beyond their islands.
