Architectural Review
- Pleasure island: a remote Gapado remodelled
- Corporate responsibility: Amorepacific headquarters, Seoul, by David Chipperfield Architects
Archinect
- Reyner Banham Is Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies at 50
- What Died with John Portman and Syd Mead, America’s Last Urban Optimists?
- For Los Angeles’ Future, See Tokyo’s Present
Bookforum
Books on Cities
- Tom Scocca, Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future (2011)
- Jarrett Walker, Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (2024)
- Carey McWilliams, Southern California: An Island on the Land (1946)
- Tim Cocks, Lagos: Supernatural City (2022)
- Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community (1989)
- Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World (2023)
- David Maraniss, Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story (2015)
- Georges Perec, Lieux (2022)
- Kate Ascher, The Works: Anatomy of a City (2005)
- Robert Fouser, Exploring Cities with Robert Fouser (로버트 파우저의 도시 탐구기) (2019)
- Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (1991)
- M. Nolan Gray, Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (2022)
- Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990)
- Juan Villoro, Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico (2021)
- Witold Rybczynski, City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World (1995)
- Joan Didion, Miami (1987)
- A. N. Wilson, London: A History (2004)
- Taras Grescoe, Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (2012)
- Donald Richie, Tokyo: A View of the City (1999)
- Shawn Micallef, Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness (2017)
- Jonathan Raban, Soft City (1974)
- Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) (2008)
- Lewis Mumford, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (1961)
- Sam Anderson, Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis (2018)
- Jan Morris, Hong Kong (1988/1997)
- Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (2020)
- Mark Kingwell, Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City (2008)
- Lawrence Osborne, Paris Dreambook: An Unconventional Guide to the Splendor and Squalor of the City (1990)
- Michael Sorkin, All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities (2011)
- Jason Horton, Abandoned and Historic Los Angeles: Neon and Beyond (2020)
- Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (1978)
- Jeff Speck, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (2012)
- Andrei Codrescu, New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City (2006)
- Owen Hatherley, Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent (2018)
- Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (1977)
- Ben Wilson, Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention (2020)
Boom: a Journal of California
- Our Car Culture Is Not a Problem; Our House Culture Is
- The Korea in California and the California in Korea [PDF]
The Guardian
- “A way of learning from everything”: the rise of the city critic
- Gangneung in the spotlight: South Korea’s true Olympic capital
- Want to join New York’s High Line crowd? Don’t listen to Joanna Lumley
- Lacking Seoul? Why South Korea’s thriving capital is having an identity crisis
- Where is the world’s most hi-tech city? (And it’s not San Francisco …)
- Reyner Banham’s Los Angeles: the Architecture of Four Ecologies at 45
- The reclaimed stream bringing life to the heart of Seoul
- Los Angeles and the ‘great American streetcar scandal’
- Singapore – the most meticulously planned city in the world
- Santa Monica: the city that wants to design itself happier
- Learning from Seoul’s Sampoong Department Store disaster
- The Renaissance Center: Henry Ford II’s grand design to revive Detroit
- The first Starbucks coffee shop, Seattle
- Southdale Center: America’s first shopping mall
- Levittown, the prototypical American suburb
- Pruitt-Igoe: the troubled high-rise that came to define urban America
- Subway station toilets: a surprisingly accurate indicator of urban civilization
- The world’s first skyscraper
- The gentrification of Skid Row – a story that will decide the future of Los Angeles
- Foodie heaven in a parking lot – what’s the secret of Portland’s success?
- Learning from Las Vegas: what the Strip can teach us about urban planning
- In Manila, malls aren’t passe – they are the city itself
- Downtown and out? The truth about Tony Hsieh’s $350m Las Vegas project
- Old white guy for mayor: has Toronto’s great multicultural project failed?
- An urbanist’s tour of South Korea, parts one, two, three, four, and five
- Amazon’s new downtown Seattle HQ: victory for the city over suburbia?
- Cities in motion: transport is as key to urban character as buildings or accents
- Los Angeles: a city that outgrew its masterplan. Thank God
KCET
- Thom Andersen’s Collected Essays Map Los Angeles’ Relationship to Film
- How Los Angeles Transformed Johnny Cash
- Alfred Hitchcock’s (Non-Existent) Los Angeles
- How 1994’s “Speed” Captured a Changing Los Angeles
KCET: Los Angeles in Buildings
- Scientology’s Pacific Area Command Base
- City Hall
- Central Library
- Biltmore Hotel
- Angelus Temple
- Ambassador Hotel
- Braly Block
- Bradbury Building
- Pico House
Korean Literature Now
Korea Times
Los Angeles Review of Books
- You Must Change Your Writing Style: Ward Farnsworth’s Guidebooks to English Virtuosity and Ancient Philosophy
- The Yankee Who Didn’t Go Home: On Robert Whiting’s Tokyo Junkie
- Born Middle-Aged: Eight Books on Steely Dan
- What Do They Know of English, Who Only English Know? (Gaston Dorren Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages and Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages)
- Something New (The London Review of Books: An Incomplete History)
- From the Age of Persuasion to the Age of Offense (David Bromwich’s How Words Make Things Happen)
- The Useless French Language and Why We Learn It (Lauren Collins’ When in French, William Alexander’s Flirting with French, and Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau’s The Bonjour Effect)
- Will We Ever Talk Pretty?: David Sedaris and the American Struggle with Foreign Languages
- Down with the English Language! (Minae Mizumura’s The Fall of Language in the Age of English and Aamir Mufti’s Forget English!)
- Music Meets Writing (Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa’s Absolutely on Music)
- Ways of Seeing Japan: Roland Barthes’s Tokyo, 50 Years Later
- How Japan Invented Los Angeles — and Reinvented American Style (W. David Marx’s Ametora)
- In Search of the “Real Japan” (Donald Richie’s The Inland Sea)
- Christopher Rand in Los Angeles, Asia, and Beyond
- Outsider: Donald Richie in Japan, 1947-2013
- Lost Causes: the Novels of Kim Young-ha
Los Angeles Review of Books Korea Blog
- How to Make It in Seoul: Sang Young Park’s Novel of Gay Almost-Romance Love in the Big City
- The Beauty Queen Is Dead: Kwon Yeo-sun’s Korean-Millennial Murder Mystery Lemon
- The Pleasures of Watching Korean Television from the 1980s, Before K-Drama Went Global
- Understanding Korea’s Unique Situation: Routledge’s New Handbook of Contemporary South Korea
- The South Korean Writer Locked Up for Daring to Go North: Hwang Sok-yong’s Memoir The Prisoner
- Before There Were Korean TV Dramas, There Was Lee Hyeong-pyo’s Under the Sky of Seoul (1961)
- The Korean Literary Crime Wave: Pyun Hye-young’s The Law of Lines and Yun Ko-eun’s The Disaster Tourist
- The Korean Literary Crime Wave: Kim Young-ha’s Diary of a Murderer and Seo Mi-ae’s The Only Child
- The Korean Literary Crime Wave: Jeong You-jeong’s The Good Son and Kim Un-su’s The Plotters
- Stroll through the Real Cities of Korea from Anywhere in the World with YouTube’s Seoul Walker
- Where Evolution Meets Creation: the Uncommonly Speculative Fiction of Kim Bo Young’s On the Origin of Species
- When “I” Becomes “We”: The Techno-Mythological Imagination of Kim Bo-young’s I’m Waiting for You
- K-Pop Evolution: A Youtube Original Docuseries Traces the Origins of Korea’s Prime Cultural Export
- The Grandma from Minari Was a Grindhouse Femme Fatale: Kim Ki-young’s The Insect Woman (1972)
- The Selling of South Korea: Youjeong Oh’s Pop City Reveals How K-Pop and K-Drama Have Transformed their Homeland
- You Can Check in Any Time You Want, But You Can Never Leave: The First Korean “Comfort Woman” Novel, Kim Soom’s One Left
- From Seoul to the Stars: The Journey of Indie Synth-Electro-K-Pop Queen Neon Bunny
- We Live in a Building-Turned-Society: The Vertiginously Satirical Sci-Fi of Bae Myung-Hoon’s Tower
- Hotels of Pyongyang: A New Photo Book Showcases the Magnificent Kitsch of North Korean Hospitality
- A Beloved Children’s Story Turned Psychedelic Rural Reverie: Go Yeong-nam’s The Shower (1978)
- King Sejong the Great: A Star Trek Writer Pays Novelistic Tribute to the Korean Alphabet’s Creator
- The Agony and Ecstasy of Learning Korean, Expressed by Memes
- Korean Provocateur: the Harrowing Films of Kim Ki-duk (1960-2020)
- Pansori at the Disco: Leenalchi, the New-Old Korean Musical Phenomenon of 2020, Gets Frustrated Tourists Dancing
- Five Years a Seoulite: Looking Back at the Korea Blog’s First Half-Decade
- Proper Travel: Island-Hopping Englishman Michael Gibb’s A Korean Odyssey
- Revisiting the Late Kevin O’Rourke’s My Korea, a Curious Memoir of a Land that Gets in the Blood
- Clarice Lispector Reborn in David Lynch’s Seoul: An Introduction to Outsider Novelist-Essayist Bae Suah
- The Woman Who Ran: The Cinematic-Romantic Collaboration of Hong Sangsoo and Kim Min-Hee Evolves
- The Great Korean Plastic Surgery Novel: Frances Cha’s If I Had Your Face
- No Sex Please, This Is Korea: Jang Sun-woo’s The Road to the Race Track (1991)
- The First Comprehensive Introduction to “K-Lit” Past and Present: Youngmin Kwon and Bruce Fulton’s What Is Korean Literature?
- The Korean Zombie Apocalypse: A Wave of Movies and TV Eerily Suited to the COVID Era
- Six Expatriate Writers Give Six Views of Seoul in a New Short-Fiction Anthology, A City of Han
- The Book of Jiyoung: An Explosively Controversial Korean Feminist Novel Comes Out in English
- In Praise of Pilsa, the Highly Uncreative Korean Method of Learning to Write
- Rediscovering Korean Cinema: An Academic Look at the Zombies, Mutants, Criminals, and Prostitutes of South Korea’s Silver Screen
- The Coronavirus Breaks Out in Itaewon, the “Gays-and-Foreigners” Seoul Neighborhood Celebrated in a Hit Netflix Drama
- Selling Your Body to Seoul: Kim Ho-seon’s Yeong-ja’s Heydays
- From Nation-Builder to (Would-Be) Apple-Killer: Geoffrey Cain’s Corporate Biography Samsung Rising
- A British Denmark Expat Takes the Measure of Korea: Michael Booth’s Three Tigers, One Mountain
- Everything Turns into ASMR in Korea, Even Cultural Heritage
- Reading Albert Camus’s The Plague in the Time of the Coronavirus
- Bong Joon-ho’s Biggest Victory: Accepting His Oscars in Korean
- The American Dream Dies in Los Angeles: Bae Chang-Ho’s Deep Blue Night
- Korea’s Greatest Living Novelist Never Published in English: Introducing Kim Hoon and His War on Abstraction
- Pengsoo, the Genderless, Shameless Giant-Penguin Antihero Winning Korean Hearts and Minds
- The Square: The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s Ambitious Review of 120 Years in Korea
- Let’s Get Out of Here: The Bitter Korean Neorealism of Yu Hyun-Mok’s Aimless Bullet
- Notes on the Camp of the Pyongyang Pub, Where Seoulites Eat and Drink Like It’s North of the 38th Parallel
- An American in Taiwan — with a Korean Tour Group
- Learning Korean with Duolingo, the Mercilessly Addictive Language App
- Old Man Gobau, the Unflappable Comic-Strip Star Who Witnessed South Korean History
- When Korea Expats Podcast (or, the Pleasures and Sorrows of Teaching English)
- Our Language Battle: Korea’s Surprisingly Addictive Game Show of Vocabulary, Expressions, and Proper Spacing
- A Liberation Day Protest Raises the Question: How Anti-Japanese Is Korea, Really?
- The Suicides in South Korea, and the Suicide of South Korea
- 43 Reasons Everything in Seoul Is Good and Nothing Is Bad (or Something Like That)
- The Making of a Dictator: Anna Fifield’s Extensive Kim Jong Un Biography The Great Successor
- A Harrowing Journey to an Island of Women, and Into Korea’s Psychological Recesses: Kim Ki-young’s Iodo
- With Parasite, Bong Joon-ho Comes Back to Attack His Homeland — and Wins it a Palme d’Or
- Los Angeles and Seoul, a Tale of Two Ugly Cities
- Ways of Looking at Kim Swoo-geun, Korea’s Poet of Brick, Concrete, and Much Else Besides
- Birthday, the First Tearjerker About the Ferry Disaster that Killed 250 High-School Students
- Stoked by a Racist Ad, a K-Pop Sex Scandal, and an Anti-Communist Massacre, Can the Korean Demand for Apology Ever Be Satiated?
- Listen to the Seoul of the 1980s, Real or Imagined, with Streaming Mixes of Korean “City Pop”
- Fried Chicken’s Central Role in a TV Drama, a Police Comedy, and Korean Culture Itself
- Luc Besson’s Léon: The Professional, a Cultural Phenomenon Going Strong in Korea for 25 Years
- Reading Tocqueville in Korea (part two)
- The Making of a Korean Monster: Kim Sagwa’s Bloody High-School Novel Mina
- High School Student, New Bride, Working Girl: The Social Uniforms Project Gazes Straight at Modern Korean Femininity
- Revisiting 301, 302, Park Chul-soo’s Stylish Film About Food, Sex, and Other Horrors
- Stuffed Animals, Dust Masks, Pet Food, and Sex Toys, All Side-By-Side in Korea’s “New Shopping Paradigm”
- An Existentialist Seoul Bookstore Owner’s Message to His Countrymen: Goof Off for Once
- Philosophy, Dystopia, Fountain Pens, and Other Preoccupations of a Twentysomething Korean Book Vlogging Star
- A Python Goes to Pyongyang (and Well Beyond): Michael Palin in North Korea
- The Colors of Pyongyang, Seoul’s Shadow Self
- Talk Like a Busanian: How to Master the Ever-Trendier Dialect of Korea’s Brash Second City
- Short Skirts and Flying Chopsticks: Revisiting the “Worst” Essay on Korea, 10 Years Later
- A Traveler’s Video of Seoul Astonishes, while Official Promotion of Korea Embarrasses
- What Jonathan Gold Understood About Korea
- The Secret Koreanness of Sticky Monster Lab
- Could Seoul Be the Next Great Cyberpunk City?
- How Anthony Bourdain Revealed Korea — and Los Angeles’s Koreatown
- The Essential Korean Fashion Accessory of 2018: A London Review of Books Tote Bag
- Burning: an Acclaimed Korean Auteur’s Explosive, Haruki Murakami-Adapting Indictment of Inequality
- On Not Being Interested in North Korea
- How the Seoul Government Turned a Bestselling Feminist Novel Into a Controversial PR Campaign
- Dropping an America Bomb on Hyundai: Frank Ahrens’s Life-in-Korea Memoir Seoul Man
- Bad Air Days in Seoul
- Travelogue Korea and the Dream of Isolation
- The #MeToo-ing of Ko Un, Korea’s Best Hope for a Nobel Prize
- Simon Winchester’s Korea, 30 Years On: Classic Travelogue or Cultural Offense?
- Letter from Gangneung, the Real Capital of the 2018 Winter Olympics
- French Nobel Laureate J.M.G. Le Clézio’s New Novel of Korea, and the Love of Korea That Inspired It
- How Korea’s Version of TED Talks Aims to Heal Korean Society
- Korean Cinema Looks Back at 1987, When Students Died and Democracy Was Born
- Why Has Korea Hired Gordon Ramsay to Be Its Big Brother?
- Korea Has Started Using English Names — But When Will It Stop?
- Yoo Jae-ha’s K-Pop Masterpiece Because I Love You, 30 Years After His Untimely Death
- Korea’s 1990s Sitcom About Life in Los Angeles, “LA Arirang”
- From Language Lessons to Sex Slavery: Korea’s New Comfort-Woman Comedy I Can Speak
- Why K-Pop Is the Same as Classic Rock
- As Detroit Shows Americans an American Riot, A Taxi Driver Shows Koreans a Korean Massacre
- Okja, the Groundbreaking Netflix-Produced Korean Move About a Girl and Her Pig, Shows What Translates and What Doesn’t
- Why Do Koreans Love Herman Hesse’s Demian Over All Other Western Novels?
- The Know-How of Korean Netizens in a High-Spec New Paradigm of Synergy: or, Korea’s Dilbert-Era Loanwords
- Western Avenue: How Korean Cinema Portrayed the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
- The March of Fools: a College Comedy Darkened by Dictatorship
- Eating Korea: an Anthony Bourdain-Approved Search for the Culinary Soul of an Ever-Changing Country
- Will Korea’s Most Famous Buddhist Monk and His Tweets of Zen Wisdom Play in America?
- When Chris Marker Freely Photographed, and Briefly Fell in Love With, North Korea
- Haruki Murakami Has More Books Out in Korean than He Ever Will in English
- Seopyeonje: How a Surprise Art-House Megahit Showed Korea Its Own Forgotten Culture
- Blade Runner 2049 and Los Angeles’ Korean Future
- Travel Is Living: How Airbnb Ingeniously Markets to Korea
- Anti-Trump Protests, Anti-Park Protests, and the Koreanization of American Politics
- Finding a New Seoul in the Old Buildings of Kim Swoo-geun, Architect of Modern Korea
- Hagwon Horror Stories: Kevin M. Maher’s No Couches in Korea
- Watching Korea Develop Through Sixty Years of Commercials
- Wangsimni, My Hometown: a Gangster’s (and a Filmmaker’s) Pledge of Devotion to Korea
- A Society of Screens: the Korea, and the World, Envisioned by Nam June Paik
- That’s Korean Entertainment: the Freakishly Fluent Foreigners of Non-Summit
- Lost in Seoul, a New York Poet’s Memoir of Marrying into a Transforming Korea
- Watching Madame Freedom, the Movie that Scandalized Postwar Korea, Sixty Years Later
- Isabella Bird Bishop: Pioneering Female Traveler and Prototypical Westerner in Korea
- Korea, Where Book Podcasts Draw Standing-Room-Only Crowds
- A Korean Travel Writer Reveals the Los Angeles Even Angelenos Don’t Know
- Korea’s English Fever, or English Cancer?
- Factory Complex: How (But Now Why) Working Women Have It So Bad in Korea
- When Conan Came to Korea
- Why Korea Needs Alain de Botton (and Why Alain de Botton Needs Korea)
- One of Korea’s Most Popular Cartoons Is About a Bus
- The Unbearable Preposterousness of Westernization: Park Kwang-su’s Chil-su and Man-su
- Reading Calvin and Hobbes in Korea
- The Empire of Light: a French Director Brings a North Korean Spy Novel to the Stage
- Learning from the Korean City
- Sex, Surreality, and Social Comformity: Han Kang’s The Vegetarian Sprouts onto the U.S. Literary Landscape
- Between Boring Heaven and Exciting Hell: Kim Soo-yong’s Night Journey
- A Korean Literary Superstar Tells His Countrymen Why to Read
- Among the Korea Vloggers
- An Ajeossi and His Robot (or, How Korean Film Dramatizes Disaster)
- The Adventures of Percival Lowell, Famed Astronomer and Early Writer on Korea
- Finding Korea in Osaka
- Ways of Seeing Korean Plastic Surgery
- Bitter, Sweet, Seoul: a Vivid Crowdsourced Portrait of an Unromanticized City
- Multicultural Love and Its Discontents
- Coffee Life in Korea
- My Favorite Kind of Korean Podcast: the Book-Reading Show
- Living the Vertical Life in Seoul
- Paju Book City: the Korean Town All About Reading (and Publishing, Printing, Browsing, Buying…)
- Why Is Korean So Hard?
- Looking for Mexican Food in Seoul (or, the Strange Case of Hoover Taco)
- An English Ceramicist in Korea: a BBC Radio Journey of Bumbling and Discovery
- Reach for the SKY
- Christmastime in Seoul
- Korean Punk and Indie Rock in a K-Pop World
- The Poetry of, or Rather in, the Seoul Subway
- America Has School Shootings, Korea Has Sinking Ships
- Korea through the Eyes of Hong Sangsoo, the Woody Allen and/or Éric Rohmer of Korean Cinema
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love I.Seoul.U
- Protest, Korean-Style
- Why I Left Los Angeles for Seoul
The Millions
- The Scientifically Surreal, Eerily Erotic Novels of Kobo Abe
- Linguistic Revenge: An Alexander Theroux Primer
- No More Lying: a Primer on the Novels of B.S. Johnson
- The Ballad of David Markson: A Primer
- The Un-Ironist: A Primer on Douglas Coupland’s Novels
- Consciousness on the Page: A Primer on the Novels of Nicholson Baker
- Darts and Philosophy, Bowling and Metaphysics: A Primer on the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint
- Smirking Obsessives: a Primer on the Novels of Lynne Tillman
- Nobody Hearts L.A.: A Personal Los Angeles Canon
MIT Technology Review
Monocle
- Making the Most of it: Revitalizing the Capital in The Monocle Travel Guide, Seoul
- Essay on Gangneung in Issue 111‘s South Korea special
The New Yorker
- The Return of Frasier
- A Defense of the Ugliest Building in Paris
- The Rise and Fall of Smooth Jazz
- Murakami in the Movies
- Trapped in Robert McKee’s Story
- J. M. Coetzee’s War Against Global English
- The Case for Listening to Complete Discographies
- The Door Opened by “Gangnam Style”
- The Cracked Wisdom of Dril
- What The Twilight Zone Reveals About Today’s Prestige TV
- The Semiotics of a 1999 Toyota Corolla
- D.J. Waldie’s Sense of Place
- The Best Movies in the Korean Film Archive
- The Comforts of South Korea’s Coronavirus Response
NPR
Open Culture
- Favorite posts of 2023
- Favorite posts of 2022
- Favorite posts of 2021
- Favorite posts of 2020
- Favorite posts of 2019
- Favorite posts of 2018
- Favorite posts of 2017
- Favorite posts of 2016
- Favorite posts of 2015
- Favorite posts of 2014
- Favorite posts of 2013
- Favorite posts of 2012
- Posts on cities, architecture, and urbanism
- Posts on Japan
Put This On
- Adolf Loos, Why A Man Should Be Well-Dressed
- Nathaniel Adams And Rose Callahan, I Am Dandy
- Kevin Burrows And Lawrence Schlossman, Fuck Yeah Menswear
- Anne Hollander, Sex and Suits
- Jeffrey Banks And Doria De La Chapelle, Preppy
- Tom Julian, The Nordstrom Guide To Men’s Style
- Cally Blackman, 100 Years Of Menswear
- Nicholas Antongiavanni, The Suit
- Hardy Amies, ABC Of Men’s Fashion
- JJ Lee, The Measure Of a Man
- Carson Kressley, Off the Cuff
- Teruyoshi Hayashida Et Al., Take Ivy
- Josh Sims, Icons Of Men’s Style
- Daniel Peres, The Details Men’s Style Manual
- Peter McNeil And Vicki Karaminas, The Men’s Fashion Reader
- Alan Flusser, Dressing the Man
The Quarterly Conversation
3Quarksdaily: The Humanists
- Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy
- Jacques Rivette’s La Belle Noiseuse
- Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Café Lumière
- Wayne Wang’s Chan Is Missing
- Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7
- Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up
- Yasujiro Ozu’s Equinox Flower
- Pedro Almodóvar’s The Flower of My Secret
- Errol Morris’ Gates of Heaven
- Frederick Wiseman’s High School
- Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep
- Hirokazu Koreeda’s Maborosi
- Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth
- Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas
- Wes Anderson’s Rushmore
- Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil
- Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris
- Jia Zhangke’s Still Life
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Syndromes and a Century
- Aki Kaurismäki’s La Vie de Bohème
- Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout
Quillette
Times Literary Supplement
- On the Brink: Michael Booth’s Three Tigers, One Mountain
- Japanese Innovations for a World of Arrested Development: Matt Alt’s Pure Invention
- Outside Person: Ian Buruma’s A Tokyo Romance
- Freedom to Suppress: Michael Vatikiotis’ Blood and Silk
- Get a Little Freedom: Suzy Hansen’s Notes on a Foreign Country
- How Korea Got Cool: Michael Breen’s The Koreans and The New Koreans
UnHerd
동아일보
일기
- 안드레스 펠리페 솔라노, <외줄 위에서 본 한국>
- 김영하, <여행자 하이델베르크>
- 데이비드 호크니 회고전
- 배수아, <올빼미의 없음>
- 송학다방
- 空間 사옥/아라리오 뮤지엄
- 서경식, <디아스포라 기행>
- 이정헌, <나의 소녀>
- 전상인, <공간으로 세상 읽기>
- 김종현의 <한번 까불어 보겠습니다>
- 오기사의 <그래도 나는 서울이 좋다>
- <건축탐구생활>
- 이경훈의 <서울은 도시가 아니다>
- 플레이 볼
- 홍상수 영화의 힘
- 서울과 로스앤젤레스의 차이 점은 뭘까?
- 영어에 대한 네 가지 거짓말
- 순천
- 세운상가
- 피터캣
- 윤정희 씨
- 온천 추석
- 옥상에서
日記
Diaries
- Okinawa 2016
- Los Angeles to Raleigh 2015
- Los Angeles to Vancouver and back 2015
- Sacramento 2015
- Vancouver 2013
- Mexico City 2013
- Portland 2013
- Kansai 2012
- Seattle 2012
- Portland 2012
- San Francisco 2012
- Mexico City 2011
Talks
- Blade Runner, Los Angeles, Asia, and the Urban Future on Film (San Diego State University, February 2019)