North Asia & the Pacific: links to recent non-fiction reviews — Japan, Siberia, Pacific
True Crime Japan: Thieves, Rascals, Killers and Dope Heads; True Stories From a Japanese Courtroom by Paul Murphy is reviewed in the Japan Times. Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style by W David Marx is reviewed in the LARB. Gently to Nagasaki by Joy Kogawa is reviewed in Macleans and the National Post. Me Against…
Outside reading: links to articles and interviews
“The Vietnam war airman who dodged a million bullets”: Don Harten survived more than 300 combat missions during the Vietnam war, one of which ended with a ditching in the South China Sea in a super typhoon. In new book Midair, the flyer’s nephew documents a charmed life and a raid that may have ended…
Asian fiction & poetry reviewed elsewhere
No Knives in the Kitchens of this City by Khaled Khalifa is reviewed in the National. The Weight of Paradise by Iman Humaydan reviewed in the National. The Parcel by Anosh Irani is reviewed in the Toronto Star. Once Upon a Time in India: The Marvellous Adventures of Captain Corcoran by Alfred Assollant is reviewed…
