Friday, August 26 2011
Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future
A up-close account of a city—and a world—at a thrilling and confounding moment in history, in which nothing can be counted as stable, from the sidewalk underfoot to Western assumptions about democracy and progress.
Monday, March 21 2011
Botticelli, Sandwiches Outside and Dreams of Bradbury’s ‘Dandelion Wine’
Boxed in by bandage-colored cubicle walls in downtown Manhattan, my thoughts drift to sweet days in Florence and Rome, and to lines in Ray Bradbury’s ‘Dandelion Wine’.
Monday, September 20 2010
‘Dreaming in Hindi’: Total Immersion, or Panicked Submersion?
Even at 45, Rich must defend her reputation. As she filters it through what would have been her acquired Hindi: “I have not been bringing men up to my room. I have not been throwing condoms onto people’s roofs.”
Thursday, March 11 2010
Josh Rouse: El Turista
More postcards from a sunny exile. Far from the blue glow of melancholy, Rouse's music aims for glorious golden moments.
Monday, November 16 2009
Running Away by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Toussaint dives deep into how we stretch ourselves thin between places in our attempt to be with one another.
Thursday, October 29 2009
Crime, Delirium, and Paris
In the second installment of his overseas correspondence, the Rockist gets robbed. And this time, not by an American corporation.
Thursday, October 22 2009
The ‘Ol Crotchety One Kicks It Transatlantic Style
PopMatters sends its weekly culture columnist abroad, with hopefully a one-way ticket.
Friday, October 16 2009
Looking for the Lost: Memoirs of a Vanishing Japan
With its narrow streets and dark and hidden infoldings, there’s a distinctly feminine, mysterious, and inexplicably magnetic aspect to Japan that exists in few other places in the world.
Friday, April 3 2009
In Cod We Trust & Magic Bus
Where else in the world can one find a town called Hell, a German U-Boat-turned-bowling alley, and Vinmonopolet, government-run wine and liquor stores?
