Why do Japanese mothers put their babies into coin lockers? And why is Japan the world's biggest brothel of teenybopper hookers. Read The Japanese Disease: Sex and Sleaze in Modern Japan to find out. The Japanese Disease unlocks modern Japa...

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A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dance...

A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist.   Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Clu...

Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young American-born writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane from America prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly...

A Vietnamese Bicycle Days by a stunning new voice in American letters. Andrew X. Pham dreamed of becoming a writer. Born in Vietnam and raised in California, he held technical jobs at United Airlines-and always carried a letter of resignation i...

" From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world. A century ago, outsiders saw Chinaas a place where nothing ever changes. T...

In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma's underground teahouse intellectuals call simply "...

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