A Cup of the Javanese Black Tea

The Halimun National Park, home to some of the world’s protected-and-rare animal and one of Java’s…

Riding with the Cops in Bangkok

The following is a first-hand account of how other’s crime of opportunity became one’s thrilling adventure.

Tri-X Factor

Bryan Appleyard writing for The Economist’s 1843:

The more important innovation, however, was aesthetic. It is hard to describe exactly the look of a Tri-X picture. Words like “grainy” and “contrasty” capture something of the effect, but there is more, something to do with the…

Borneo

Barely Indonesia

As the sky changes and the swallows cue the dawn — watching over from my 6-story high window, the flat-lined profile of the city’s landscape pokes to the horizon as…

David Robert Jones (1947–2016)

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947–10 January 2016) was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter and actor. Bowie was a figure in popular music for over four decades, and was known as an innovator, particularly for his work in…

“Now I think that this would make for a fantastic obit — so I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want…