Volume 16 Issue 1
Workshop Workshop
If you want to write highbrow fiction today, you’ve probably at least considered getting a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.
Comfort Food
As with everything else they do, the girls in Japan take it just that little bit too far, right up to the point where it’s basically obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Prawns Ahoy!
It’s important that the last woman you see before you board a fishing trawler is reasonably hot.
The Busy Gallows Of Iran
Iran is the only country in the world that continues to execute children. 2008 saw six teenagers get the chair kicked from under them (that's right, hanging is the preferred method).
Protest By Fire
Everything starts to look a bit unremarkable once you stumble upon a hospital ward full of girls who have tried, and failed, to kill themselves.
Jesus Was A Terrorist
Barun Roy is the editor of The Himalayan Beacon, a monthly magazine based in Darjeeling that has a reputation for unswerving journalism and being more clued-up than anyone else.
The Troublemaker
On a Wednesday afternoon in February 2007, I shared a booth with a man named 26 inside the Travelers Club International Restaurant & Tuba Museum in Okemos, Michigan. We'd picked a spot far enough from the door to give us some respite from the winter...