An account of the journalist author's travels and experiences in Mongolia in the 1990s, shot-through with irony and humor. Editor of "ub Post," an independent newspaper in democratic Mongolia, Lawless captures the startling contrasts of emerging technologies, MTV culture and crumbling Soviet heritage on the wide, open plains. The first chapter is entitled "Stranger Than Paradise." With a short selection of color photographs.  (MGL27, $16.95)