This is a bit long, but I've fiddled with it for such a long time that I'm just going to publish it as-is. Here's an excerpt f...

From Wikimedia Commons I like to read old books about Taiwan, and it doesn't get much older than this. In 1704, a man named George Psalm...

First, a touch of random business: check out my interview with designer Johnny Chiu of Not Just Library and the east coast culinary train i...

Voices from the Mountain (2014) Husluman Vava, Auvina Kadresengan and Badai Translated by Dr. Shu-hwa Wu Edited by David R. Braden Recently...

Content note: this book is about sexual assault and domestic violence. I don't know what else to say. Don't read this book (or this ...

Sorceress Diguwan by Badai I'm a blockhead. I don't do stream of consciousness, and I'm not a fan of I like novels with intentio...

None of the online images were any good, so here's my own In the past, I'd found it difficult to access the Routledge series on Taiw...

           I cracked open the slim 2021 translation of Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes on a transpacific flight, after a fairly rough but ultima...