Macau Closer Jul-Aug 2026 Issue – Maurice Dekobra’s Macao: L’enfer du jeu (1938)

My latest column for Macau Closer magazine (online and available in Macau at stockists including Livraria Portuguesa) is on the now rather overlooked interwar French literary star Maurice Dekobra’s 1938 novel Macao: L’enfer du jeu (Macao: Gambling Hell), unfortunately never translated into English and, perhaps more intriguingly, you can watch the French movie adaptations (the original was reshot for reasons of Nazis, Vichy, antisemitism and occupation…