The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

Himeji, Japan My time here in Japan has one fatal flaw:  no garden.  Yes, there are gardens everywhere to admire, but there is not on...

It is always deeply satisfying to find a book that I can add without hesitation to the Flophouse American Diaspora reading list.   Notes on ...

Last night I finished Kimberly Kay Hoang's Dealing in Desire:  Ascendancy in Asia, Western Decline and the Hidden Currencies of Global S...

“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.” Salman Rushdie,  Imaginary Homelands: Essa...

A curious title of a book I picked up a few days ago.  It caught my eye as I was trolling for my next read in the usual places.  When I saw ...

If I don't pay attention my entire time in Osaka will be spent reading in my blue chair.  Not that having my nose in a book is a bad t...

"The question "Who am I?" really asks, "Where do I belong or fit?" We get the sense of that "direction" -...

Last week I read this one again and found it just as delightful the second time around.  Here is the review that I wrote two years ago.  Enj...