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.
Roving Asia expert Ron Gluckman recently reviewed my book Sacred Skin for the Wall Street Journal. His review was shortened for the Journal publication but has now turned up in its full length glory on Ron Gluckman’s website.
The review also covers another soon to be published book on the same subject, by Bangkok journalists Joe [...]
Sacred Skin is today’s cover story of The Bangkok Post’s Brunch Magazine.
Journalist Ezra Kyrill Erker writes that, “Aroon Thaewchatturat’s extraordinary pictures do more than capture the tattoos, they capture their wearers’ personalities, and perhaps even the energy invested in them by the designs.”
The four page spread also features an interview with photographer Aroon [...]
My review of Chris Taylor´s excellent novel Harvest Season is running in The Wall Street Journal this week. A thoughtful meditation on backpacker mayhem in Southern China, quite unlike Alex Garland´s The Beach.
Read the full review here.
The following review by June Sawyers of the Chicago Tribune of my Moon Cambodia Guide appeared on www.philly.com.
Moon Handbooks: Cambodia
Avalon
If Cambodia is known for one thing, aside from the decades of war and genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge, it would have to be the temple ruins of Angkor, which attract more than a million [...]
Tom Vater writing as Ian Cole (why exactly I don’t recall) for Farang Magazine in January 2005.