New BSC Review Column

The appetence for alterity… The desire for Diversity Victor Segalen called it in his posthumous, fragmentary Essai sur l'exotisme. I prefer my terms, for the sense of affinity versus lust, deviance versus variety. And I'm not one for the pomp of concepts rendered as proper nouns, unless in a metaphor of domain — the ghetto of Genre, the city of Writing. But what Segalen's suggesting is