I was lucky enough to have this piece published in Metropolis Magazine. You can read that version here. The Noto Peninsula was once considered the […]
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The Japan Times – As borders slowly reopen, a familiar question returns: Why did you come to Japan?
Since moving to Jōetsu in November 2021, I’ve been asked one question more than any other: why did you come to Japan? Check out this […]
Yankee dogs go home
The evening is calm and the sea stretches into the horizon like a great blotchy carpet. Far offshore, red specks of light occasionally flash amid […]
Yusuf and the Red Book
My maternal Grandfather had an excellent repertoire of stories, collected over the course of his career as a diplomat. Before he died, he wrote some of them down. This is one of them.
What I’ve learned about Shinto
Nature spirits, scorched temples and accepting death – this is Shinto, Japan’s native belief system.
Yo Vocal Magazine – Book Review: The Jungle
5-minute read. In the midst of a global pandemic and with winter closing in, Sinclair took me to Packingtown, Chicago’s meatpacking district at the turn of the last century.
Packingtown is, as it so happens, hell.
Yo Vocal Magazine – Book Review: The Underground Railroad
4-minute read. In order for us to heal from the past, we must first understand it. Often, this understanding is not meaningfully achieved through the memorisation of dates and events, but through well-told fiction.
Yo Vocal Magazine – Book Review: The Catcher in the Rye
4-minute read. My flatmate reads this goddamn book and tells me that it’s alright so I pick it up to see if it’s as sexy as he says it is and all I get is this mopey kid.