afterstan
Hi internet friends, Time for my July update, and a note about the future of these updates. Meta-commentary about this updateFirst, to make this update make a bit more sense, a bit more context: In July we continued what we had been doing, which was cycling up the west coast of Sumatra. If you're...
afterstan
Hi internet friends, Time for my June update. After Taiwan, Bell and I flew to Indonesia. We decided to go here, well I decided to take us here, mainly because I didn't know anything about Indonesia. And that seemed a bit odd, given that it's a big country of 280 million people. More...
Fabius
This post began as something I intended to finish writing in December 2024. In late 2024 I went to a bookstore in Berlin, and on a whim decided to buy Han Kang’s Human Acts. I had never before made an effort to read recent winners of the Nobel Prize, and I knew nothing about the book – I...