THE INK ENDURES
In an era when words flicker across glass screens and
thumbs
dictate more than hands ever wrote, one might assume the fountain pen to have
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