The Environment: Chain of Thoughts – Solar Energy for the Home
By Chung Hyunhwa || I have been longing to use solar energy for my home, but it has not happened yet, except for little outdoor garden solar lamps. (They are … Read More
The Heat Beneath Our Feet: Gwangju’s Summer Islands
By Siddhant K. || Step off the bus on Gwangju’s Geumnam-ro at 9 o’clock on a summer evening, and the day’s heat is still there, radiating up from the asphalt … Read More
AI in Gwangju: The City’s Vision for Becoming an AI Hub
By Muhammad Umar Tahir || Gwangju is preparing to turn the entire city into one enormous artificial intelligence laboratory. Roads, hospitals, government offices, cultural spaces, universities, and even ordinary neighborhoods … Read More
The Calcuttan in Korea: Jinju – A City of Returning Histories
By Reeti Roy || Jinju is one of those places that refuses to stay contained inside a single narrative. You arrive thinking you are looking at a regional Korean city, … Read More
Book Review: The Corrections
Reviewed by Michael Attard || The Corrections By Jonathan Franzen 566 pages, Picador, 2002 (Original 2001) The family grew up in the American mid-western town of Saint Jude. Saint Jude … Read More
Poetry: The Marbles We Lost to Time
By Tabbu Shaikh || Passing time… As it left, it stole so many of our things. And merely handed us the count of growing age upon our fingers. Now I … Read More
Poetry: Gentle Hand of Night
By Tamara Pantović When a terrible night with fiery wings crosses the river, calm waters begin to sing with a voice of endless pain and shudder. When the midnight wind … Read More
Untergang: A Small Book Café with Big Conversations
By Saqib Sharif || In a sweltering evening last August, a friend invited me to the opening of a new book café. When I entered the address into my map, … Read More