by Jim Algie | Jul 21, 2016 | Music
Bangkok rock history has been a sounding board for songs, album covers and gigs by everyone from the Clash and the Pretenders, to the Pogues, Bjork, Rush and Michael Jackson. 1. The last Clash The cover of “Combat Rock,” The Clash’s biggest-selling album, was...
by Jim Algie | Jul 21, 2016 | Personalities, Profiles
Before his name became synonymous with Thai silk, the most famous expat in Thai history was a soldier decorated for bravery. In this excerpt from the new book Americans in Thailand, I try to disentangle all the colorfully embroidered yarns and misunderstandings about...
by Jim Algie | Jul 21, 2016 | Films
The new Ryan Gosling revenge thriller set in Thailand is a grisly and despairing affair that pushes Bangkok noir to its darkest pitch Bangkok has been referred to by Christian puritans, in the guise of journalists, novelists and filmmakers, as Babylon or Sodom and...
by Jim Algie | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog, Book Reviews, My Reviews
Crime and corruption, hookers and hitmen, the new anthology Bangkok Noir makes a case for hardboiled crime fiction in the Thai capital with bullet points. Jim Algie reads you their writes In the middle of 2011, some eight years after the Thai government’s “War on...
by Jim Algie | Jul 12, 2016 | My Reviews
THE PEAK OF THE FLESH TRADE By Jim Algie Starting with the first shot, the brilliantly warped Bangkok 8, the series of John Burdett mysteries starring the Thai-American detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep have traded on flesh: of sex workers and the transgendered, the skin...
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