Williamsburg, Brooklyn is a delightful microcosm of all that’s trendy with today’s millennials. To our UK-based readers, it is to New York what Bristol is to, well, all of England. The area has vegan cafes, record stores, poetry events, and five unique and wonderful bookstores. While the bookstore as a retail space is not faring so well...
Written by Yan Lianke | Translated by Carlos Rojas If it moves like a dream and talks like a dream, it must be a dream. If it kills, it should be stopped. Yan Lianke is not beloved by his own government. Like all great artists, he has the skill and the confidence to hold up a mirror to the face of his society. This face doesn’t like what...
Is Teaching EFL for you? When we enter university at the age of eighteen, most of us fall into one of a few categories: some of us know what job we want and how to get it, and study accordingly; many of us follow a passion and see where it takes us, hoping for the best; and an unfortunate amount of us take up a subject we care about and...
Written by Mariana Dimópulos | Translated by Alice Whitmore The feeling of restlessness comes hand-in-hand with the sorrow of parting ways with a place or a person. In All My Goodbyes, Mariana Dimópulos distils these feelings and all their ravaging effects on us into 130 gripping pages. In a single afternoon, readers will pass through a...
Introduction: Tokyo City Guide From the moment you master the sprawling train network that governs this city, the vast metropolis of Tokyo starts to unfurl before you. This is the city where you’ll find ancient shrines just moments away from drip coffee stores and boutiques, where women in kimono brush shoulders with suited...
Tokyo’s Best Day Trips Tokyo is not only the largest and most exciting city in Japan to visit, but its location also provides a slew of fantastic day trip opportunities. From Tokyo, other exciting cities like Yokohama are conveniently accessible, and smaller Edo-syle towns are a short train ride away. Whether you head North, East...
Visiting Tokyo is always exciting, and deciding which area to stay in is one of the biggest challenges for anyone visiting the capital as it’s so big and transport is particularly expensive. Central destinations are usually preferred due to it often taking over an hour to reach the suburbs on the train. However, as Tokyo is a city that...
The Collected Schizophrenias byEsmé Weijun Wang In this moving collection of essays on living with schizophrenia, Esmé Weijun Wang looks back at her own life; examines the cultural zeitgeist surrounding mental health, and explores the science and stories surrounding schizophrenia in the 21st century. Mental health has become less and...
Ultimate Guide to Pet and House Sitting As long-time travellers and lovers of pets, we were quite late to the house sitting gig, despite it being a fairly obvious choice for us in terms of combining the things we love. It was actually a good friend of ours in Tokyo who pointed us in this direction. Since we’ve started, we’ve been met...
Teamwork can be a challenge. Even those who revel in it and find the most satisfaction in it can fail, come to blows, and end up walking away. This is true in sports, construction, design, even writing. When it works, however, it’s gratifying and makes the journey more fluid and less frightening. In travel, many people opt to go it...
