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Towards the end of our time in Mozambique, my wife and I had arranged to meet a friend in Metangula, a small strip of a town on the shores of ...
Breaking Bread with the Pomaks
With each passing kilometre along the E55, my hopes for picturesque
Pomak villages nestled in the foothills of the Rhodope Mountains became snarled
up in the plastic debris that littered ...
Waylaid in Bucharest
Rather than getting on another, we were to wait at the airport “until arrangements could be made.”
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Book Review: Map of Another Town, by M.F.K. Fisher
Best known for her food writing, in Map of Another Town the American writer M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a virtual tour of the French town of Aix-en-Provence. ...
Pounding
From behind the walls, always, I could smell it, women lighting fires for cooking and the aroma of toasting millet rose with the smoke.
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In Search of Kunufeh – a recent journey to Israel and Jordan
Now I am standing before this timelessly powerful monument, breathing the cold air in awe, remembering the House of David and the crusades, thinking that this is the source, this ...
Four Days: A Provocation
So this is East Germany, 1972. We scramble for our passports, watching passengers exit under machine guns aimed at our train from atop nineteenth-century iron catwalks arching above the tracks. ...
Methods of Escape
The cop climbs in the back seat and introduces himself, Naim. Like many Afghans he has just one name.
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Chasing Sakura: 10. School
We had, however, not experienced a moment’s error in Japan’s transport schedules – so far.
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The Card Players: A Noctambulist’s Guide to Florence
For me, the colony of lights that speckle the midnight city is always preferable to the monarchic blaze of the summer sky.
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Two Landscapes and a Dismal Science
I had taken some thirty years ago – a walk that had stunned and disturbed me at the time, but which I had since almost forgotten… ...
Dear Singapore
It was thirteen years ago that I set foot on your shores, as a starry-eyed, newly married, first-time expat.
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Chasing Sakura: 08. Dance
I was in a foul mood, which the blandness of the place, coupled with the annoyingly present weather like a child incessantly badgering us, did nothing to assuage. ...
Chasing Sakura: 07. Osaka
As one of the few establishments in Osaka that may possibly have offered a vegetarian option, this restaurant had taken us longer to locate than expected, seeing as Google Maps ...
Chasing Sakura: 06. Farewell
On the one hand, we were happy to walk freely on a narrow path that not too long beforehand would have been heaving with crowds. On the other, we were ...
Chasing Sakura: 05. Ceremony
The first time we saw Gion was in the evening, during a light rain. And what a seductive show it put on. The pink sun diminished between buildings seemingly held ...
Chasing Sakura: 04. Faces
The Land of the Rising Sun is also the Land of Many Faces.
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Chasing Sakura: 02. Scramble
Read part one of this series here.
Due to the back-and-forth nature of our trip, we gave ourselves only two days in Tokyo before we were ...
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Jim Crow in Jerusalem
(Figure 1) Robert Frank, “Trolley – New Orleans,” The Americans (1959)
“New Haven itself is a crime scene, the site of historic and continuing racism, segregation, and social inequality.” ...
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Sea Mothers
With underwater photography by Zena Holloway.
© Zena Holloway
I: Birth
Breath. Knife. Dive. Gum. Pill.
These the first words you lisped, as though the sea needed to mark you, ...