Irreverent, informed and downright eclectic books and reportage from Southeast Asia and beyond
I just reviewed Jake Adelstein’s Tokyo Vice for the The Devil’s Road, a blog on all things Noir and Hardboiled.
Read the full review of this tale of an American journalist on Japan’s crime beat.
Very nice to see my new book Sacred Skin, the first English language publication on Thailand’s sacred tattoos, known as Sak Yant, got a mention of a dermatological site in the US.
Sacred Skin was photographed by Aroon Thaewchatturat, designed by NEW and published by Visionary World. I wrote the text.
Check out this brief review of [...]
It´s pretty rare my partner in crime, photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat and I open our home to show our work. But this Sunday, we had a great day having lunch and talking things Asian with American artist Elizabeth Briel who paints, photographs and works with paper, focusing on Asia.
Like me, Elizabeth is a committed transnational - [...]
Kodansha Europe Ltd. have created a press release for my new book Sacred Skin. The UK distributor for the book has created several pdfs, downloadable from this link, to promote the book amongst bookstores and franchises around the UK.
Sacred Skin has attracted several international high profile reviews in recent weeks, including a three page spread [...]
Who Killed Chae Vichea is now available as a DVD in The US.
This gripping 55 minute feature is a roller-coaster investigative journey into a tragic political killing and by extension, a story about a country ruled by impunity. And just to prove that a film maker’s work can still have an [...]
Joel Brinkley’s book Cambodia’s Curse – The Modern History of a Troubled Land is the first book to examine the venality of Cambodia’s current government. Ever since Vietnamese withdrawal (Vietnam liberated the country from the genocidal yoke of the Khmer Rouge in 1979) in 1989, Prime Minister Hun Sen and an assortment of allied and [...]
The Most Secret Place on Earth - The CIA’s Covert War in Laos, directed by Marc Eberle and written by Marc Eberle and Tom Vater has just been broadcast on the History Channel.
The film traces the origin and development of the largest clandestine CIA operation to date (at least as far as the agency actually [...]
William Young, the CIA agent who is credited with allegedly discovering Long Cheng in northern Laos, a remote valley which became a top secret CIA air base in 1965 - and soon after the busiest airport in the world - shot himself in Chiang Mai, Thailand a few days ago.
During the making of the feature [...]
Every day, we appear to be moving a little closer to a state of affairs where governments could become obsolete.
Large parts of the world have always been ruled by people who don’t really qualify as governments, but in recent years, perfectly respectable rulers have also shown signs (not for the first time) that they are [...]