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Isham’s 2022 Year in Books
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American Rococo: Essays on the Edge
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The Kitchens of Canton
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The Mustachioed Woman of Shanghai
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Confucius and Opium: China Book Reviews
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At the Teahouse Cafe: Essays from the Middle Kingdom
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Lust & Philosophy
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The Exact Unknown and Other Tales of Modern China
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Massage and the Writer
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Sexual Fascism: Essays
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“Qiezi.” Fiction
Swinging down her sack, Qiezi dumped out the bloodstained rags and began washing them. She worked with practiced speed, but the current would move many li downstream before all were restored to their pristine gray, rinsed out and stacked on the old slab of rock beside her. Squatting, she then loosened her pants’ cotton sash and pulled them down. Gently, ever so gently in thumb and forefinger s
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Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
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| Everything dystopian you think is happening -- in both China and the rest of the world including the US -- is happening. One of the many striking facts in this new book is that almost all of the companies involved in developing the apparatuses for di ...more | |
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| Nothing in David Corn's new book wasn't already known, but he pulls it all together and his history of the GOP makes for an excellent page-turning refresher course. What's indisputably clear is that the Republican Party is and has long been (at least ...more | |
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| Compellingly written and just exhaustive enough to flesh out the picture every step of the way without getting too bogged down in extraneous details, Spitz's 1,000-page tome only seems to lose focus and rush things in the final Abbey Road-Let it Be y ...more | |
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| A minor classic since its release in 1995 - just as the digital book revolution was getting underway and undermining the long realm of the printed book. Personally, I do not share the madness of bibliophiles, who as Basbanes notes so often display in ...more | |
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Sex, Drugs, Enlightenment: Noble Secrets from an Orthodox Buddhist ex-Monk
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| A completely unexpected introduction to Buddhism by an American with many years under his belt as a monk in Sri Lanka and Thailand. Walking combines the discipline of Theravada-style meditation with "Red" (sexual) Tantra and calibrated use of intoxic ...more | |
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“But the outcome was inevitable: she assumed you would not take no for an answer; she could already see your charming smile morph into the grimace of a rabid dog. To”
― Lust and Philosophy
― Lust and Philosophy
“Andrew Solomon, in his book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, traces the links between addiction and depression, which frequently co-occur, as well as the intimate relationship between depression and anxiety. He quotes an expert on anxiety who suggests we should think of the two disorders as “fraternal twins”: “Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss.” Both reflect a mind mired in rumination, one dwelling on the past, the other worrying about the future. What mainly distinguishes the two disorders is their tense.”
― How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
― How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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