THE GIST: An American girl cannot decide what to do with her life, so she wanders around Ireland, Australia and South America with a free-...

This week a schoolgirl sat next to me on the MTR reading Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, the 1993 Booker Prize winner by Roddy Doyle. A young man wa...

THE GIST: A woman is relegated to the role of breeder in a dystopian pseudo-biblical society. THE VERDICT: Margaret Atwood's well-kn...

Welcome to the second installment of the new Hong Kong Walking Tours. If you missed last week's adventure, we visited the antique galler...

This week I saw a total of three people walking and reading at the same time. I greatly admire this skill. The first two were young girls r...

THE GIST: A man travels around China and discovers that it is more complicated and crowded than he anticipated. THE VERDICT: This is a d...

Everyone can use a little more Hong Kong in their life, so I am launching a new feature: Hong Kong Walking Tours. Each Wednesday (HK time) I...