One beer down, but more drunk on the charming bookstore I’m sitting in, this stark difference between a world long gone (Lisbon in the 1930s) and a world very much ...
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. ...
The creator of the hit musical Five Guys Named Moe, Clarke Peters, conjures up a vibrant and colourful picture for us to dive in, giving us glimpses of not just ...
The cop climbs in the back seat and introduces himself, Naim. Like many Afghans he has just one name. Continue Reading Methods of Escape
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We had, however, not experienced a moment’s error in Japan’s transport schedules – so far. Continue Reading Chasing Sakura: 10. School
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For me, the colony of lights that speckle the midnight city is always preferable to the monarchic blaze of the summer sky. Continue Reading The Card Players: ...
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… Continue Reading ...
It was thirteen years ago that I set foot on your shores, as a starry-eyed, newly married, first-time expat. Continue Reading Dear Singapore
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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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Land of the Rising Sun is also the Land of Many Faces. Continue Reading Chasing Sakura: 04. Faces
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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 scheduled to leave it. ...
“New Haven itself is a crime scene, the site of historic and continuing racism, segregation, and social inequality.” So wrote a scholar of the city at the turn of ...
In the first of his column for Litro, debut author Polis Loui Continue Reading Chasing Sakura: 01. Occidentals
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The architecture of Gaudi is one of the most striking things that the city has. You can feel the beauty of the Park Güell, its famous dragon decorated with trencadis ...
“It was the early summer of 1945, and we walked through the streets of a Barcelona trapped beneath ashen skies as dawn poured over Rambla de Santa Monica in a ...
But in Cuba, Che will never age, not as long as the myth is perpetuated. Continue Reading Mything Cuba
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I am left in wonder and craving for more. This, my friend, is the Caribbean. Continue Reading The Difference Between a Mango and a Maracuya
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