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I arrived in Matsuyama mid-evening. It’s a city on the north coast of the island of Shikoku, but in the dark we hadn’t even seen the bridge connecting it with the main island of Honshu from our express train. I … Continue reading
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I feel a fraud for not having read Ulysses, so I buy a postcard and some lemon soap and leave. Continue reading
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During the Austro-Hungarian Empire Balatonfüred was a holiday resort for the rich, and an important centre of intellectual life. However, on a wet and windy night in the early twenty first century it felt more like Cromer in November. Continue reading
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My knowledge of Japanese is limited, to say the least. Continue reading
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Geographically the Philippines is a little out of the way and writers feel isolated from the global literary scene. Continue reading
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History untold is non-existent history. Continue reading
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How writers and artists combat attempts to erase histories that don’t fit in mainstream narratives. Continue reading
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Dan and I are the only foreigners taking part in the conference, and all the information we’ve seen has been in Burmese, so we’re not entirely sure what’s going on. Continue reading