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My friend and I are hanging out at Rockefellers, a popular cosy bar in Abakaliki. A half-outdoor-half-indoor bar. There’s no wall separating the inside from...
The word samurai comes from the Japanese verb ‘to serve’. This exhibition, bringing together 280 exhibits, traces the evolution of the samurai image and myths....
On the bus ride down the east coast of the South Island, the jagged shape of the Alps retreated into the distance on their southwesterly...
Most people don’t move into a house they’ve never seen. If not a tour, then at least some photos, but I had neither. It was...
Sitting at the café at the edge of the world, you watch the ferries, like hulking metal beasts, lumber across the Irish Sea to Dublin....
I lay awake in bed under a 15-tog duvet and the crushing weight of loneliness. It was nearly 2 a.m. The street outside was as...
“Time holds the fate. of me and you / The mirror lies but the images are true.” I used to laugh at these words, etched...
Nora met Javi when he bumped into her with the still-lit end of a hand-rolled cigarette. At first, Nora thought someone had spiked her with...
A patch of flat, scorched earth wedged between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait turns east like a falcon’s head to shriek at the Gulf. In...
They shove off together barefoot with no plan, a couple fearless Huck Finns. New love is always built on the kind of trust you put...
I found a B/W photo of us from 1963 taken at a protest march in front of a federal building you’re wearing sunglasses slacks ...
Every time I drive through Washington and Oregon, I get nostalgic. Pine and fir trees cover the hills, snowcapped peaks in the distance—the classic Pacific...
[NEW YORK, MARCH 2003] — In the beginning I traveled in the hushed hours between midnight and dawn. I savored the quiet that fell over...
While our guides prepare breakfast in their rudimentary camp kitchen — their backs hunched against the cold wind — the rest of us gather in...
Beneath a sky heavy with the promise of winter, Kars had arrived, not merely as a destination, but as a revelation. Angelic flakes danced beyond...