I live in a seaside motel. On nights the ocean is lively I can lie in bed and hear it murmur midnight elegies. When I’m having trouble sleeping the sounds of the sea’s salty breath draws me out into the darkness wearing my LED headlamp. I cross Route 1A, scramble over the Army Corps of […]
Abyssophobia is the exact opposite of the fear of heights. It is a fear of depths—bottomless depths. A man who sits alone in a room fears he may fall so deeply into himself that he never returns.
While it’s difficult say when, exactly, one goes from being a Lost Boy of China to a Dirty Old Man of China, it’s easy to tell the difference. One remains a child at heart. The other could very well support child prostitution.
Because they are run like businesses, not schools, these academies are primarily interested in producing profits, not proficient English speakers. The result is a legion of young Koreans who dedicated
Artist Ai Weiwei, freed after 80 days of internment by the Chinese government, violated the terms of his release by penning a stream-of-consciousness polemic against Beijing in Newsweek online, using words such words as “desperation,” “violence,” and “slaves” to describe the capital city. Ai’s comments closely followed the announcement that Chinese police may gain the authority to detain suspects […]