It's one word that will bring a smile to my face and wake me from a coma. There's one in Bangkok (at Siam Paragon) and one in Singapore. It's where I go to get books. Although the situation in Vietnam is improving, for example, Thu Xuan bookstore on Dong Khoi recently had a promotion of books where I scored a stack of Phaidon artist monograms from the likes of Cai Cuo Qiang, Luc Tuymans, Stan Douglas and Doug Aitken, finding a wide selection of international books is impossible. Following are the catches of today (and the week is still young...)

Books
Peter Lamborn Wilson. Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegados
Paul Auster. Travels in the Scriptorium
Paul Auster. The Book of Illusions
Albert Camus. Exile and the Kingdom: Stories
Albert Camus. The Rebel
Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland
Charles Guignon. Being Authentic
Jorge Luis Borges. The Universal History of Iniquity
Gaston Bachelard. The Poetics of Space
Haruki Murakami: After Dark
Casio Abe: Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano
Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour. Subtitles: on the foreigness of film
Margaret Krug. An Artist's Handbok: Materials and Techniques
Suwat Kaenkattiyarat. Thai Drawing Style of Ramayana
Angus Konstam. The History of Pirates

Magazines
Art4d. July 2007.
9749269683
Asian Art News. July/August 2007
Art Asia Pacific. July/August 2007.