Irreverent, informed and downright eclectic crime fiction and reportage from Southeast Asia and beyond
I just watched Django Reloaded or Unchained as it’s called. Fucking hell. Two and a half hours long. I like long, angry, eloquent movies. And what a screenplay. They will be teaching this one in film school one day. Effortless as the bite of a scorpion, entertaining as the today’s news, disturbing as today’s politics, [...]
In The Great Railway Bazaar, published in 1975, best-selling travel writer Paul Theroux described Bangkok as “a hugely preposterous city of temples and brothels”. More than thirty years later, first time visitors to the City of Angels could be forgiven for thinking that Theroux‘s analysis is as valid today as it might have been then, in [...]