All Stories
Everything we've published, newest first.
The sad, extraordinary tale of a general in the Revolución exiled as a ‘leper,’ as told by a Spanish artist
Spanish artist Ginés Serrán on sculpting a bronze monument in Iloilo for General Martín Delgado, the revolutionary hero exiled to Culion.
Even further adventures in hi-fi: Or ‘You zombie be born again, my friend’
Speakers heavy as a monolith, vinyl drops at six in the morning, and a Hong Kong audio show where Jeff Buckley never really died
The day I got high at the Himalayas
A Himalayan sunrise from a windy hotel terrace in Nagarkot, thangka brushes of a single hair, and an open-air cremation on the Bagmati.
A shot of Basi with Bob Feleo
‘I don’t believe in inspiration,’ says master sculptor Bob Feleo, on the Basi Revolt of 1807 and why art should provoke thought.
A tour of India’s Golden Triangle: Immortal beloved
Humanity divides in two, according to Vinee: those who have seen the Taj and those who have not. Seen from the tower where Shah Jahan ended.
Rodel Tapaya and Marina Cruz: Two for the road of art
Contemporary Filipino artists Rodel Tapaya and Marina Cruz on folklore, memory, and building an artistic life together in Bulacan.
Rock of ages
Retracing the Holy Family’s flight through Egypt: cave churches, four monasteries in Wadi El Natrun, and a bible that floated up the Nile.
Salsa Night in the Land of Pharaohs
We are really nowhere men after a hard day’s night, but at this hour, by the tomb of Tutankhamun, there shall be dancing.
Get Your Kicks On Route 666
Noel Gallagher on his first guitar, the Cure’s longest set, a reporter who mistook Fergie for Apl.de.ap: an album of crazy diamonds met along the way.
‘Rivo-lution’ no. 9
Rene Rivo is the Yoda of audio. The man behind Hyperaudio on hotrodding tube amps, tweaking Thorens turntables, and why vinyl never quite died.
Further adventures in hi-fi: Or ‘And he’s buying a stereo to heaven’
Feel the derision of audiophiles once they find out you owned a piece of Bose equipment at any point in your life. It’s like the Mark of Cain.
27 or so encounters with the weird
Ghost sightings, haunted Parador hotels, and weird encounters in Malabon that prove the living are far scarier than the dead.