A Mix of Insight and Bromides

ean Wilentz has produced a massive tome of American political history called The Age of Reagan (HarperCollins,....

NO, NOT JUST ANOTHER BARGIRL NOVEL EXTOLLING DECADENCE
David Young has written six bargirl novels.

Legends of staying power
Opening the doors of Asia's grandest old hotels to reveal a century's flow of fascinating characters....

The Inspector Maigret of Laos
Vientiane's world-weary chief coroner goes coup hunting in his funniest outing yet

The moon beyond Burma
A Shan princess reaches deep into the past to shed light on the present in a fascinating memoir full of....

The man 'Time' magazine named Person of the Century is a topic as big as the universe

Richard Russo, the sage of upstate New York, explains six decades in a life that never graduated from high....

Teenagers in or out of love should make a date with this issue. It offers updates on all the entertainment....

On civil society
Focusing on "the experience of the Small Scale Farmers' Assembly of Isan (SSFAI)", this volume....
A tribute to the tusker
As India's pachyderm population declines, there's a nostalgic yearning for the long-lost mystique of....
Plugging that brain drain
The Wisdom Paradox By Elkhonon Goldberg Published by Pocket Books, 2007 Available at Asian Books, Bt450
Meet Keller the lizard killer
More Living Thai Ways Part III By Michael Keller Published by Bangkok Books, 2006 Available at Asia Books,....

Symbolism Decoded
A new book by a former National Museum volunteers unlocks the secrets behind the motifs of Chinese art
A City of Contrasts
An art historian takes a long, hard look at the Venice of the East in a new cultural guide
'Dead' writer talking
Author Peter James, whose tales of a fictional British police detective sell in the millions, is quite at ease....
Creating a cop called Costa
David Hewson, in Bangkok to unveil not one but two new novels, says if you only write what you know,....

Richard A Engelhardt
Background: Unesco regional adviser for culture in Asia and the Pacific and coauthor of the recently published....
John Whitehead
Background: director of the British Council in Thailand