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Tomb raiders

by Tom Vater

[ may 03 ]

Tomb raiding was big in Cambodia long before Angelina Jolie started filming.

Skating on thin lice, and other typographical errors

by Gerry Easter

[ may 03 ]

There was more to a Liverpool childhood than the Beatles. There were also debt-collectors, pawnbrokers and betting shops.

The Nagasaki literary scene

by Tom Bradley

[ april 03 ]

Nagasaki is not Paris in the twenties. Japan is a nation in its death throes, vocalizing its terminal agony, not going quietly.

Dean Stang

by Joe Palmer

[ april 03 ]

"With her little pearl-handled, chrome-plated, .25-calibre pistol she shot him in the left temple. In Thailand they drive left, as in England."

My summer vacation in Afghanistan

by Peter Lamborn Wilson

[ march 03 ]

"'Ah, honourable presence, how have I offended three?' 'No, no! You didn't offend me. It was your use of the subjunctive! So beautiful! Like visiting the 15th century!'"

The great toad stampede

by Guy Herron

[ march 03 ]

"The Arizona environment in those days was strongly, well, chemical. For some reason Oracle was thought to be an important link in the drugs pipeline and so we had what we came to think of as the nark-a-month program."

Québec happens

by Joe Palmer

[ march 03 ]

Language, dialect and identity in French Canada

Here comes the Sun

by Damien Enright

[ january 03 ]

Tourists have replaced cows in La Gomera, and Euros tinkle instead of cowbells.

Dancing with the dead

by Mark Pilkington

[ december 02 ]

The silent majority party with the living on Los Dias de Los Muertos.

Leila

by Linda S Heard

[ december 02 ]

Millions of Arab Jews fled their homelands when Israel was born, and their culture is in hiding.