The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home

From Hong Kong, where people actually live in self-contained hotels, to Atlanta's Olympic Village, which seems to inadvertently commemorate a sort of corporate universalism, to Japan, where in the midst of alien surfaces his apartment building is called 'The Memphis', Iyer ponders what the word 'home' can possibly mean in a world whose face is blurred by its cultural fusion and its alarmingly rapid rate of change.