CONTENTS: * Time Travel in a Broken World, * New York, New York, * The Indo-Perisan Sublime, * The Death of Sanskrit, * Lost City, * Istanbul Interregnum, * The Archivist, * Waiting for Giorgio, * Never Let You Go, * American Triptych, * Universal Beach, * The Society of the Spectacle, * Samudra Mahal, * Kashi Karvat, Acknowledgments, Publication History, Author's note.