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From Kuala Lumpur, Berlin, and places in between: a newsletter about how we seek and tell stories to make sense of a changing world & our place in it…
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Eating with other people's families
Thinking about everyday feasts and reunions, surprising human connections, and the lives that happened before us.
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Ways of Writing
Can travel writing be redeemed? An essay based on a reading of Tim Hannigan's Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre.
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A woman out in the world
What I've learnt from more than a decade exploring the world on my own, and what it means to me.
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Waggle dancing
A tentative first step in discovering new stories for the table: on growing, eating, and sharing food equitably in a rapidly warming world.
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Kaori Fujimoto: What we give when we give money to the dead
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From the Munich-Berlin overnight train
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Wael Qarssifi: "Everyone saying what they think, out of love, is an act of activism"
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Blurred lines of violence, loyalty, and love in Northern Ireland
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Rebecca Chew: "I think being an outsider, or having that perspective, helps"
Q&A: An art director on moving from Malaysia to the U.S. for a dream job at the start of the pandemic, the differences in being a creative here and…
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Remembering Sanmao, the Taiwanese travel writer who lived in the desert
She was born some eighty years ago today.
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Mabel Ho: “I still flirt with the idea of leaving. But that dream plays to a different tune now.”
Guest essay: After years imagining what her exit plan would look like, A Malaysian finally comes to terms with her choice to remain.
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Meeting the year ahead
No real resolutions, as usual, but I'm hoping to reframe my perspective with a little help from writers and artists who have echoed my desires.
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Landmarkings, vol. 15
A round-up of essays, journalism, and fiction about how we make sense of a rapidly changing world and our place in it, and how we tell its stories.
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Movable Worlds
From Kuala Lumpur, Berlin, and places in between: a newsletter about how we seek and tell stories to make sense of a rapidly changing world & our personal and collective place in it.
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