This is one of the classics of Chinese literature, and me being the philistine could only gawp over how thick …
January 19, 2012 – 8:09 pm
Reading: Shi Naian — The Water Margin: The Outlaws of the Marsh, Trans: J. H. Jackson
November 4, 2011 – 3:41 pm
Reading: (2nd time) Susan Mann — The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
In early 2008, before I moved to Berlin, I had a book-buying spree, and a couple of those books I …
November 27, 2010 – 11:40 am
Reading: Edward Allworth (ed.) – Central Asia – 120 Years of Russian Rule
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April 12, 2009 – 4:01 am
reading: jorge luis borges – collected fictions
jorge luis borges – collected fictions
April 12, 2009 – 3:45 am
reading: theodor adorno – aesthetic theory
theodor adorno – aesthetic theory
December 13, 2008 – 10:31 pm
reading: hanna arendt – the life of the mind
hanna arendt – the life of the mind
October 12, 2008 – 5:14 pm
Reading: Walter Benjamin – Berlin Childhood around 1900
The last few days I have enjoyed the rather delectable company of a hobo formerly from Berlin, now residing in …
February 25, 2008 – 6:43 pm
Reading: Susan Mann – The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
susan mann – the talented women of the zhang family
October 5, 2006 – 11:15 pm
europe central
In another country, long enough ago to be only someone else’s life, I remember a summer entranced in my small …