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,
THE BARK OF LIMONIA
There are few things in travel worse than a
red-eye
flight — leaving in the middle of the night, landing at dawn, and never managing more