Colin Marshall sits down in Knightsbridge, London with Jacques Testard, founding editor of the quarterly arts journal The White Review. They discuss the re-issue of Nairn’s Towns featuring past guest Owen Hatherley; London’s surprisingly small literary culture and what, before founding The White Review, he didn’t see getting published; the “deeply stereotypical Williamsburg existence” he once lived in […]
Essayist and podcaster
Projects
Recent essays
- Chris Marker, Sans Soleil, and Japan
- Christopher Rand in Los Angeles, Asia, and Beyond, 1947-1968
- City essays for The Guardian
- Donald Richie in Japan, 1947-2013
- Essays excerpted from A Los Angeles Primer
- Four books about Vancouver
- Four Western literary expats in postwar Japan
- Men's style books
- Peter Hessler, the New Yorker's essayist of place in China, Colorado, and Cairo
- The films of Hong Sangsoo
- Three novels by Kim Young-ha
Presences
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Recent Posts
- Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E47: Waking Up in the Unknown with Jim Benning
- An Urbanist’s Tour of South Korea, Part Five: Busan, “City of Tomorrow” – and Yesterday
- An Urbanist’s Tour of Korea, Part Four: Cycling Through Changwon and Elsewhere
- An Urbanist’s Tour of Korea, Part Three: New-Built Villages in Paju and the “Ubiquitous” City of Songdo
- An Urbanist’s Tour of Korea, Part Two: The Cheonggyechon Stream and Dongdaemun Design Plaza
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