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Travel the world through a literary lens while twisting and turning through the streets of Shanghai, Kyoto, Quito, or Istanbul.
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Sort of a Highlife
A review of a beautifully written new memoir, "Highlife & my other lives", and an interview with its author, Richard Walker
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A constant treasure: On the road with Edward Lear
Some literature you discover, some you take with you.
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Murmurs in the cathedral
Love, murder, war – and Christopher Marlowe’s "Hero and Leander"
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Oxford English
When I learnt that it wasn’t too late to seek a newer world
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Jeffrey Streeter
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Sessions of sweet silent thought
On 'melon pan' and things past
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With the familiar dead
Posthumous reflections with Seamus Heaney and the Aeneid
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A Prologue to Oxford English
How my year off before university helped to change the direction of my life
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Jeffrey Streeter
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The moon wanes and the wild goose flies high
The remarkable life and work of Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi
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Jeffrey Streeter
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Borodin in Devon
How music became a catalytic part of my education
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Jeffrey Streeter
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Songs of the sentinels
The sakimori, Japan’s 7th century frontier poets
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The great gap in time
A comments section for William Hazlitt’s essay “On Antiquity.”
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At the Palace Museum
"A stately pleasure-dome decree": the new cultural district in Hong Kong
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The tree guardians (木守り)
Persimmons in Japanese culture
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A glimpse of distant horizons via "beautifully crafted essays and observations" covering literature, memoir, and faraway cities from a recovering cultural bureaucrat joining up the dots of an international life.
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