Nicholas Gordon

@nickrigordon

Editor, @FortuneMagazine. Also host of @BookReviewsAsia podcast. Based in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Joined September 2013

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This week on the @BookReviewsAsia / @NewBooksNetwork podcast: Michael Khodarkovsky talks about his book "The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts," (@yalepress) on what the empires of the steppe: Russia, the Ottomans, Safavid Iran...

Nicholas Gordon @nickrigordon Sep 20

This week on the @BookReviewsAsia / @NewBooksNetwork podcast: @AndrewSethMeyer comes on the show to talk about his book “To Rule All Under Heaven,” from @OxUniPress , to talk all about the Warring States period!

Nicholas Gordon @nickrigordon Mar 30

A few weeks ago, I sat down with Anduril founder Palmer Luckey. Finally got around to writing it up for @FortuneMagazine—though a lot has changed since (including the start of the Iran war).

Nicholas Gordon @nickrigordon Feb 26

I knew it. I've been getting weird book club request emails for weeks. I'm not even an author! I'm getting confused with *someone else* who has my name!

nytimes.com/2026/02/25/boo…

www.nytimes.com Hungry for Affirmation, Vulnerable to Scams: As a Writer, I Know the Feeling From George Saunders to the National Book Foundation, the literary world has been besieged by fake requests. Just like me.

Nicholas Gordon @nickrigordon Oct 18, 2025

Fire in Central, HK. From about 10 minutes ago. It *looks* like the scaffolding caught fire.

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