Books
June, 1988
Pico Iyer Set off to tour the East—Bali, Tibet, Nepal, China, the Philippines, Burma, Hong Kong, India, Thailand and Japan—and to find how American culture had seeped into those far—and somehow not-so-far—away places. In Video Night in Kathmandu (Knopf), he loads up the striking, sometimes hilarious contradictions that obtain in lands where the natives have adapted aspects of American culture whimsically and sometimes nonsensically. A kid who is likely to shout "Yankee go home" is also...
