Chu Ko, 191
Chuykov, Ivan:
Fragment of a Fence, 52–53
Noughts and Crosses, 53
CIVIC (Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict), 285
civil partnership, 34
Clements, Alan, 453
Clinton, Bill, 90, 193, 347
My Life, 322
Clinton, Hillary, 356
CNN, 60, 66
Coetzee, J. M., 148
Collective Action Group (K/D), USSR, 46–49, 52
Colombia, sexual identity in, 34
Confucius, 187, 381
Congreve, William, 327
Connoisseur, 45
Conservation International (CI), 294
Conwill, William Louis, 268
Copacabana, 408
Coral Sea, 485
Cosmoscow, 57
Cousteau, Jacques, 484
Crimmins, Pamela, 7–8
crossroads of history, 5–6, 22, 29
Cuba:
autocracy in, 26
celebrations in, 18–19
changes in, 18
cultural dissonance, 20–23, 129–30
cultural exclusion, 39
Cultural Revolution, see China
Daesh (ISIS), 34
Dai Jianyong, 137
Dalai Lama:
coining of the title, 238
and living Buddha, 381
Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama, 429
da Silva Pereira, Douglas Rafael, 426
Dayan, Moshe, 468
deafness, 397–405
Dean I-mei, 207, 208
Made in Hong Kong, 207
De Maria, Walter, 290, 291
democracy:
arrival of, 28–29
as euphemism for capitalism, 95, 185, 327
and freedom, 129
local meanings of the word, 74, 90–91, 93, 105, 121–22, 134, 139, 336–37, 446, 451
de Montebello, Philippe, 184, 187, 192, 193, 195, 196, 202
de Morro Agudo, Dudu, 422
Deng Xiaoping, 29, 105, 134, 375
Denisov, Nikita, 102
depression:
alternative treatments of, 262
and distraction, 233
and learning to forget, 233–34, 235
and learning to love, 234–35
and loneliness, 257
Noonday Demon (Solomon), 32, 36, 211, 229, 249, 261, 435, 436–37
rescue from isolation, 234, 257
and suicide, 250, 257, 258
talking about emotions, 253–54, 256–58
and trust, 234
and working, 234, 235
writing about recovery, 261–62
de Pury, Simon, 50, 51, 52, 53
de Souza, Amarildo, 426
de Wet, Barend, 150
Didenko, Tanya, 66, 75
Ding Fang, 132
Ding Yi, 127, 131
Diouf, Madame, 263–65
diplomacy, 40–42
disability, social constructionist model of, 405
diversity, embracing, 41–42
Djebbar, Maître Saad, 323
Dmitri (ship captain), 389–90, 392–93
Dobrokhotov, Roman, 102
d’Offay, Anthony, 126
Donadio, Mr. (teacher), 5
Drevin, Aleksandr, 50
Duchamp, Marcel, 185
Dumontt, Luiz Carlos, 422
Dupree, Nancy Hatch, 271
Dürer, Albrecht, 124
Ecuador, 8–9
Egypt, homosexuals imprisoned in, 35
ElBaradei, Mohamed, 347
Elkhair, Abdulgader, 343
elsewhere, idea of, 33
Elton, Louise, 6
Enderby Island, 387
enemies from abroad, 41
England:
author’s affection for, 2–5, 10
author’s move to, 10–11
civil partnership in, 34
foreign habits in, 9–10
Enkhbaya, Nambar, 247
Enraizados (Brazilian educational organization), 422
Ernst, Max, 301
escape fantasies, 3, 4
Eskimos, see Inuit peoples
Esquire, 261
Etwebi, Ashur, 355, 356
Eugenia, Unforgettable, 178
Evans, Nicholas, 397
evil:
good vs. evil, 17, 79, 120, 122
of the Holocaust, 1, 306
rape-conceived children considered products of, 309–10
in society, 230, 356, 432
evil spirits, 266
Fakhri, Azim, 284
families, differences within, 39–40
Fang Lijun, 111, 112, 118, 120–21, 133, 136
Fan Kuan, 181, 182, 185, 196
Travelers amid Streams and Mountains, 186, 188, 189, 194, 196
Fan Rong, 137
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (Solomon), 32, 39–40, 305, 397
Farhad, Alam, 284
Farrakhan, Rev. Louis, 340
Faustini, Marcus Vinícius, 417, 420
Feith, Roberto, 410
Feldman, Ronald, 50
Fellows, Sir Charles, 215
Feng Boyi, 137
Feng Mengbo, 122
Fiennes, Susannah, 211, 212–13, 215, 217
Fierau, Genevieve, 437
Fierce Animals (film), 123
Figaro Prize for Humanitarian Service, 231
Filippov, Andrei, 61, 63–65, 66
Fine Arts in China, 109
Fini, Gianfranco, 353
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 493
flat feet, 2, 499
Fluxus, 135
Foh-Amoaning, Moses, 433
Fong, Wen C., 183–84, 188, 191
Beyond Representation, 184
and Met exhibition, 185, 187, 189, 192–95, 200, 202
Possessing the Past, 202
Food & Wine, 269
Foreign Policy in Focus (organization), 348
Forster, E. M., A Passage to India, 25
Four Days in September (film), 422
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, 448
Franz Josef, Emperor, 376
freedom, idea of, 26–28
Freedom House, 100–101
French airliner UTA 772, 346
French Revolution, 29
French West Africa, menu in, 21
Friedman, Steven, 175
Frolov, Viktor, 72
Fugard, Athol, 148
Fukutake, Tetsuhiko, 288
Fuller, Buckminster, 301
Gabeira, Fernando, 415, 417, 422
Gable, Clark, 332
Gaffney, Christopher, 414
Gaidar, Yegor, 89
Gainsborough, Thomas, 212
Galápagos Islands, 8
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 56–57
Gardner, Kevin, 81
Gatsinzi, Jean-Pierre, 309
Gauguin, Paul, 299
Gaultier, Jean Paul, 168
gay marriage, 33, 34, 35
gay people, 33–36
atrocities against, 34–36, 98–99
author’s identity, 3, 10, 11, 33–34, 430, 485
protection of, 33
gay rights, 33–36, 99, 430–32, 437
Geers, Kendell, 146–47
Gehry, Frank, 287
gender identity, 33–34
Geneva Conventions, 418
Geng Jianyi, 114–15, 130, 361
genocide commemoratives, 305
George, Sister, 9
Gerasimov, Igor, 83–84
Getar (Balinese chief), 403–4
Ghana, 429–33
gay rights in, 431, 432
wedding ceremony in, 429
Ghanem, Shukri, 329–31, 341, 349, 353–54
Ghaznavi, Aziz, 279, 280, 282
Gilbert & George, 125–28, 140
“Girl from Ipanema, The” (song), 425
“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (song), 8
glaciers, melting, 259
, 395–96
global warming, 302–3, 385, 392, 396
Gobi Desert, 237, 242–43
Godfather, The (film), 87
Goebbels, Joseph, 57
Goldblatt, David, 176
Goldfinger (film), 366
Golovin, Andrei L., 90–91, 92, 95
Goodhew, Steve, 299
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 45, 47, 66, 94, 177, 334
and glasnost, 50, 448
kidnapping of, 448
and perestroika, 93
resignation of, 59–60
Gordimer, Nadine, 148
Gottgens, Kate, 150
Graham, Dan, Cylinder Bisected by Plane, 290
Graham, Martha, 297
Grantseva, Arisha, 75
Great Barrier Reef, 301, 485
Grebenshchikov, Boris, 78, 79, 97
Greece, public protests in, 184
Greenland:
beauty of, 252
Danish colonization of, 249, 253
depression in, 249–58
gay identity in, 34
hard life in, 250
Inuit in, see Inuit peoples
language in, 249
taboo against talking about yourself in, 251
trauma as ever-present in, 254
update, 258–59
Guadalcanal, Battle of, 294
Guantánamo, 350
Guanyin (Buddhist goddess of mercy), 369
Guatamala City, La Limonada neighborhood of, 24–25
Gu Dexin, 113–14
Guest, Michael, 437
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 287
gun laws, 25
Guo Xi, 185
Early Spring, 186, 188, 192, 196, 200, 202
Guryanov, Georgi, 73, 78, 97
Gu Wenda, 129, 131–32, 139
Haas, Aleksei, 73–74, 75
Habich, John, see Solomon, John Habich
Habyarimana, Juvénal, 306
Hadrian, 215
Haftar, Khalifa, 357
Hakimian, Timur, 275–77
Hamas, 352
Han Chinese, 197, 199
Han Feng, 360–65
Hangzhou, China, food in, 114, 363–64
Hangzhou gardens, 378
Haring, Keith, 288
Harpers & Queen, 12, 45
Harun, Happy, 383
Harvey, Mark, 221–22
Hasan (sailing ship captain), 215
Hassani, Shamsia, 284
hate speech, 37
Havel, Václav, 337
Hawke, Leslie, 436, 437, 438
Hearn, Maxwell, 182
Hecht, David, 262, 264
Hecht, Hélène, 262–63, 264
Helms, Jesse, 192
Helmsley, Leona, 127
Henrique Cardoso, Fernando, 416
Henriques, Ricardo, 412
Heritage Expeditions, 386–95
Heritage Foundation, 343
Hermitage, St. Petersburg, 50, 57
Hitchcock, Alfred, 302
Hitler, Adolf, 57, 178, 460
Hlungwani, Jackson, 160, 171–72
Hobbes, Thomas, 323
Hobson, Andrew, 212, 214, 216
Holocaust, 1–2, 24, 26, 37, 306, 439
home, idea of, 15–16
homosexuality, see gay people; gay rights
Hong Kong, pro-democracy demonstrations in, 138–39
Honmura, Japan, 288, 290
hope, 15, 28–29, 140, 284, 407, 443
Houmaidi, Ahmed El, 8
Houston, Whitney, 112
Hsia I-fu, 210
Htein Lin, 473–75
A Show of Hand, 474–75
Htin Kyaw, 479
Huaisu, 201
Autobiographical Essay, 199
Huang Chih-yang, Maternity Room, 209
Huang Gongwang, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, 201
Huang Rui, 136
Huizong, emperor of China, Two Poems, 201
Human Rights Watch, 479
Hussein, Saddam, 335, 449
Ibrahim (sailing crew), 212, 216
Ibrahim, Ahmed, 326, 354
Idris, king of Libya, 322
Ilimanaq, Greenland, 252, 253, 256–58
immigration:
effects of, 26
restrictions on, 38–39
Inca ruins, Ecuador, 8–9
India:
British Raj in, 450
gay culture in, 34, 432
homosexual behavior criminalized in, 35
and Myanmar, 473
partition of (1947), 460
Indonesia, 397–405, 461
Indonesian Sign Language (ISL), 405
Indyk, Martin, 347
Ingapirca (“Inca wall”), 9
Inkomtrust, 83
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 347
International Criminal Court, 7, 357
internationalism, 40
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 348, 415, 416
Inuit peoples, 249
depression in, 250–58
hunters and fishermen, 250–51, 254
kiviak (fermented auks) eaten in, 251
large families of, 251
living in igloos, 251
mental illnesses in, 255
storytellers, 251, 253
suicide rate in, 250
three sage women, 253–58
Inujima Island, 291
Ionesco, Eugène, 192
Ipanema beach, 408, 427
Iran:
atrocities against gays in, 35
and nuclear program, 348
and terrorists, 346
Iraq:
atrocities against gays in, 34–35
chaos in, 29
refugees from, 39
war in, 27, 269
irony, 14, 54, 217, 246, 330, 355
Irony Tower, The: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost (Solomon), 14–15, 45
ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), 34–35
ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), 34, 357
Islam, 351–53
Sunni Mālikī (theological school), 331
Isle of Mull, 3
Israel, state of, 468
Istratsov, Vasily N., 96
Italy, public protests in, 184
IT Park, Taipei, 206–8
Ivanov, Viktor, 100
Ivleva, Viktoria, 59–60, 65–66
Jahid, Abdul Raqib, 274
Jaipur Literature Festival, 432
Jakobshavn Glacier, 259
James, Roger, 294–96
Jansen, Jonathan, 176
Januário, Márcio, 427–28
Japan, Benesse Art Site in, 287–91
Jason, Stefanie, 176
Jessica (friend), 294, 298, 300
Jiang Wen, 123–24
Jianyi, Geng, 361
Jobim, Antônio Carlos (Tom), 424–25
Joburg Art Fair, 176
Joelson, Amalia, 254, 256–58
Johannesburg Art Foundation, 152, 153
Johansen, Karen, 254–58
John, Elton, 51, 53
John Paul, Pope, 18
Johns, Jasper, White Alphabets, 289
Johnson, Samuel, 25
Johnson, Scott, 281, 282
Johnson, Tom, 212, 214, 216
Judd, Donald, 287
Jung, Carl, Mysterium Coniunctionis, 40
Kabakov, Ilya, 53
Man Who Described His Life Through Characters, 50
Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, 50
Man Who Never Threw Anything Away, 50
Kabinet, 77–78
Kafue National Park, Zambia, 226
Kagame, Paul, 305, 306, 307, 319
Kalimba, Célestin, 310
Kamran, Baktash, 278
Kangerlussuaq ice fjord, 252–53
Kangxi Emperor, 377
Kanta (teacher), 398–401
Karzai, Hamid, 270, 271
Kasanka National Park, Zambia, 225
Kasparov, Garry, 102
&nbs
p; Kata Kolok sign language, 398–401, 405
Katsuba, Valera, 81, 97
Katz, Max, 102
“kayak anxiety,” 255
Kazakhstan, nomads in, 16–17
Kebyar (Balinese woman), 402–3
Kennedy, John F., 162
Kentridge, William, 149–50, 171, 173–74
Kesyar (Balinese woman), 403
KGB (Russian intelligence agency), 12, 54, 63, 99
Khademi, Kubra, 284
Khan, Altan, 238
Khan, A. Q., 347
Khan, Genghis, 272
khanqah (Afghan holy building), 278
Khin Kyi, 455–56
Khmer Rouge, 230–32, 468
Khövsgöl Lake National Park, Mongolia, 244–46
Khrushchev, Nikita, 47, 61, 334
King, Alice, 128
Kirill, Patriarch, 99
Kiselev, Aleksandr A., 90, 91–92, 97
Kisevalter, Georgi, 47
Klimov, Andrei, 57
Klimova, Yelena, 99
Koloane, David, 145, 147–48, 152, 158, 173
Ko Minn Latt, 446, 453, 470
Kopystiyanskaya, Svetlana, 53
Korea, elections in, 455
Kostromin, Sergey, 98
Kounellis, Jannis, 289
Krylov, Romuald, 89
Kuan Kuan, 191
Ku Klux Klan, 37
Kuksinaite, Irina, 78, 79, 86
Kurlyandtseva, Lena, 64
Kusa, Musa, 326
Kusama, Yayoi, 290
Kuzmin, Dmitry, 99
Kvant International, 84
Kyi Zaw Lwin, 469
Kyrgyzstan, gay men entrapped by police in, 35
Lake Iteshi-Teshi, Zambia, 226
Lalae (yacht), 298–301
Lange, Amelia, 254–55, 256–58
Lantos, Tom, 349
Lao Li (Li Xianting), 126, 128, 136
on categories of Chinese art, 110
and Chinese avant-garde, 106–8, 119, 127, 131
and Fine Arts in China, 109
and Gaudy Art, 135
influence of, 107, 122
moral purpose of, 107, 134
and Yan’s lawsuit, 133, 134
Lauder, Leonard, 329
Lazarus, Emma, 37
Leblon Beach, Rio de Janeiro, 408
Lee, Lily, 208
Lee Teng-hui, 187, 197, 206
Lee Yulin, 206, 208–9, 291
Legae, Ezrom, 145
Leidermann, Yuri, 63
Lenin, V. I., 50, 102, 151, 175, 246
Leonardo da Vinci, 125
Leshan Grand Buddha, 367
letting go, 44
LGBT issues, see gay people; gay rights
Libya, 7, 321–57
atrocities against gay people in, 35–36
Basic People’s Congresses in, 322, 337–39, 354
Bulgarian nurses in, 334–35, 348
chaos in, 29, 355, 356–57
Circle of Fire in, 354–56
corruption in, 343–44
economy of, 321–22, 330–31, 333, 341–43, 345, 353, 354
fundamentalism in, 325, 331, 349, 352
Green Square in Tripoli, 331–32
growing population of, 331
isolation of, 34
Italian occupation of (1912–43), 324, 353
literacy rate in, 333
National Oil Company in, 326, 330, 341, 348
and nuclear weapons, 347
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