Ladies and Gentleman, Your In-Flight Entertainment for this Evening: Late Capitalistic Nausea
Benjamin Kirby’s humorous essay takes us through the absurdity of a six-and-a-half hour Emirates flight
Itthon (At Home)
In a series of personal vignettes, Rose Gove traces their evolving relationship with the country of Hungary
mint tea: a summertime lyric
A piece of free verse from Rabat, Morocco, where a woman navigates (mis)belonging, visas, and mobility
A Transitory World
Filipina-Egyptian writer Farah Fawzi Ali’s formally experimental poem weaves through Arabic, Tagalog and English, road signs, pop songs, text messages and winding thoughts
Hungry City
A sprawling essay engaging with ramen, New York, Teju Cole’s fiction, and hyphenated identities, by Vamika Sinha.
Cities and Eyes: The Twin Cities
New fiction inspired by Italo Calvino, by Zoe Jane Patterson.
A visitor’s guide to Leiden
A surreal city poem by Tzy Jiun Tan set in Holland.
In the Corners
A wandering poem about traveling through different cities looking for love.
what kind of city is florence?
“how to reconcile this heaven of art with the hell you read of in dante’s inferno / of corrupt florentines and popes who abused their office / how to see past the peeling paint / to demolished jewish quarters and feuding noblemen and the scorched poor and their burned-down houses” – new in invisible cities, Jamie Uy writes about her time in Italy.
Al Seef in Dubai
Dayin Wijaya observes the Dubai creekside in his new poem.
Aircraft Cabin
A tender poem on identifying home in impermanence, movement and transience.
Travelers & Artists: What Happened to the Give & the Take?
We are all guests in the lives of others, and we ought to treat our hosts with not only respect, but also with genuine interest, especially if we travel far to meet them or decide to make art from their lives.
Point Ephémère and the Slum: How Paris Handles Her Refugees
The editors of this magazine stumbled upon a refugee slum next to one of Paris’ hippest clubs. Here’s what happened.
Taking the RER B
In this new creative nonfiction piece, Vamika Sinha offers a series of vivid vignettes, each set at a different metro station in Paris.
Paris
Tzy Jiun Tan observes her temporary city in this new poem.
Ghent, Belgium
A poem celebrating the quirks of the small Belgian city.
Porte de Choisy
In this personal memoir, Vamika Sinha reflects on navigating life in Paris as a foreigner, walking through its Chinatown district.
le marais
An outsider walking through the streets of Paris’ trendy Marais district.
Writing Florence and Siena
Invoking Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Tzy Jiun Tan writes on her experience of art, life and cityscapes in Italy in this creative nonfiction piece.
study abroad
When the privileges of studying abroad lead to reflections on the history of colonialism, imperialism, and globalization. New in milk & vodka.