As the pandemic subsided during the summer months in Europe, the southern states of the United States experienced a surge in cases. We brought a first hand account from Linda Barnard in a New Orleans care home: It’s getting real in here. Newly established, the isolation ward has been set up too close for comfort. … Read more
‘It’ had well and truly arrived by March, insidiously working its way into our lives like an unwanted guest who slips through the door unbeknownst. Editorially we were looking at the big picture, assessing the implications of what we used to call ‘the coronavirus’ – before becoming COVID-19 on February 11th – through political, legal … Read more
Liberation For the first time since landing I’m allowed to travel the country. My plans to go to Japan and practice Aikido with the masters are on a massive stand by. Hanoi’s fishermen are back on the landscape, monstrous exhaust clouds blurring the skies again. My backbone feels their soggy reels, its toxic dust, and … Read more