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LODESTAR: Nordic crime fiction comes into its own
By Professor Danton Remoto Jorn Lier Horst is a bestselling crime-thriller novelist from Norway. His novel, “Snow Fall”, has sold 10 million copies worldwide, with...
LODESTAR: Lope K. Santos’ novel still speaks to us after more than 100 years
By Professor Danton Remoto Penguin Random House South East Asia has released my English translation of Lope K. Santos’s monumental novel, “Banaag at Sikat.” I’ve...
LODESTAR: City Life
By Professor Danton Remoto People have different ways of moving around in this chaotic metropolis. I used to have a car made in China, with...
LODESTAR: Kazuo Ishiguro’s take on the world
By Professor Danton Remoto One of the last books I bought from Kinokuniya Bookstore in Malaysia was Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize for Literature lecture published...
LODESTAR: Asian Landscapes
By Danton Remoto(Part 2 of review of God’s Dust by Ian Buruma)"The Old Japanese Empire" deals with Taiwan and South Korea. The author twinned...
LODESTAR: Landscapes
By Danton Remoto(First of two parts)God’s Dust. That is the title of Ian Buruma’s travel book about Asia. The last 20 years has seen an enormous...