Tag Archives: Asia

September 16, 2010

Inside North Korea

by Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Random House Trade Paperback, 2010), 2010 Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction I am delighted to tell you about my book Nothing to Envy because … Continue reading →

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September 30, 2009

Do We Live in a Borderless World?

Parag Khanna, author of The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century, delivered a fascinating talk at this past summer’s TED Conference.  At the crux of his speech, and the book, is a rejection of the notion of … Continue reading →

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