The Disappearing ActThe writer known as M. is living in exile while her home country wages war on a neighbouring state. Wracked by shame and severed from her language, M. finds herself unable to write, unmoored in a present where the future feels unknowable. When she travels to a nearby country for an event, a twist of fate leaves her stranded in an unfamiliar city, phoneless and untraceable. In this rupture, she feels a flicker of liberation the possibility of starting

Menjelang detik Jepun menyerah kalah

raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence

The resulting shift in threat perception ― among policymakers and ordinary citizens alike ― transformed the United States

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist

Ever ready with the trenchant one-liner

The promise of synthetic biology and the panic of living on a dying planet

This is not to say the world has been peaceful

and economic analysis

something is not quite right

in these resonant

Thriving public spaces also enhance creativity

Exiled in 1948