The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

Otsuba Park, Osaka, Japan, June 2017 As I was doing my fieldwork in Japan I came across something that is referred to as the Sommers Hy...

The songwriter Bob Dylan was given the Nobel Prize for Literature a few months ago.  A few days ago his lecture was published on the officia...

"Fantasies are real and true in themselves; they happen in our psychic lives and they are consequential in so much as all our thoughts ...

Cities are not always inimical to wildlife.  In the morning I wake up to the sounds of the crows cawing.  I walk out on the balcony of my Os...

The new president of France, Emmanuel Macron, has spoken directly to the American people in response to Donald Trump's decision to withd...

My reading takes me in strange but wonderful directions.  For the past week or so I have sat in my blue armchair in my Osaka apartment vicar...

"This desire of travelers not to be seen as tourists is at least in part connected to an interest in how they are perceived by the loc...