THE ANT TRIBE
In August 2025, China’s official youth unemployment rate—the proportion of 16- to 24-year-olds not in full-time education and actively seeking work—rose to
YELLOW DEEPAVALI
It’s Deepavali in Singapore: the glow of Little India can be seen long before one arrives. Strings of
neon peacocks
and lotus flowers stretch
HAISHOKU SOUKAN
My old friend Ryuichi replied right away when I sent him a few screenshots of the book I was holding: “You’re reading an 80-year-old
BIG BEN SUMO
Now, in mid-October, the London Royal Albert Hall — more accustomed to symphonies and state banquets — resounded with the thuds of 200-kilogram men
colliding
. For five
THE FORGOTTEN HILLS
On the southern edge of Lombardy, just beyond the industrial sprawl of Milan and Pavia, the land begins to rise and breathe again. Rolling hills,