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Living in a world not of our own making
On Abang Adik and the tragedy of statelessness in Malaysia & what fiction may do, differently from journalism, for social justice. (Plus: a companion…
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Emily Ding
Watching Gaza
On ceasefire, condemnations, and the deterioration of language.
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Emily Ding
Homing pigeon
A personal journey through the Chinatowns of Kolkata, London, and Guatemala City.
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Eating with other families
Thinking about everyday feasts and reunions, surprising human connections, and the lives that happened before us.
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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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Writing about the vivid “waving” frog that vanished suddenly
An ode to the Chiriqui harlequin frog, and how to think and tell stories about species extinctions.
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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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From an old city by the sea #3
Studies in minor details: Too long after we arrive, we finally go swimming—in search of a dazzling shore. Plus: a swimming lesson from Mao and…
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From an old city by the sea #2
Studies in minor details: An exercise in watching people and noticing how this city—until recently a poster child for overtourism—is changing as it…
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Emily Ding
From an old city by the sea #1
Studies in minor details: Feeling fragmented, I try to find my moorings in everyday rituals and the ordinary in the extraordinary.
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From the Munich-Berlin overnight train
On slow travelling, being alone in unfamiliar places, and talking (or not talking) to strangers.
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Blurred lines of violence, loyalty, and love
The trouble with the Troubles in Northern Ireland and what it's got to do with Game of Thrones.
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