Places

The View from Mogadishu

By / June 2012

Abdi Latif Dahir returns to the beleaguered capital of Somalia: “The dust on the rubble was settling and that is always the first step towards starting over.”

Topics: ,

The View from Djibouti

By / May 2012

Rachel Pieh Jones on the hottest country on earth: “Despite the listlessness of the waves, the winds off the ocean where the Red Sea bleeds into the Gulf of Aden provide a soothing breeze.”

Topics:

Words Made Flesh

By / May 2012

Brian McKanna on Istanbul’s newest museum, a project by the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk: “Pamuk has fashioned a clever, fascinating study into the discrepancies between fact and fabrication.”

Topics:

The View from a Rickshaw

By / May 2012

Chris Watts on what Chennai looks like from the back of a rickshaw: “Chennai roads are a maelstrom of close, breath-brief encounters. Nameless, nearly formless, strangers keep whizzing by.”

Topics:

The View from Sacre Cœur

By / April 2012

Will Fleeson on what Paris looks like in the morning from the steps of the famous basilica: “Everyone climbs in Paris, from Balzac’s Rastignac to the migrants and joggers on this unremarkable morning. Everything climbs.”

Topics: ,

Secret Garden

By / April 2012

One Muslim family has lived and worked in the Ferikoy Protestant Cemetery, a walled-off graveyard near Istanbul’s answer to Fifth Avenue, for going on half a century.

Topics:
×