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My Best of 2018 (Note to Self)

In the 2006 novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a father and son spend their days walking through a harrowing

Every artist is a cannibal/ every poet is a thief/ all kill their inspiration/ and sing about their grief/ over

Music Although our cult of fast distractions and great disruptions is hell-bent on crushing the album beneath its caterpillar tracks,

There is apparently a scientific reason why, as we grow older, we tend not to resonate with newer trends in

“Why Colombia?” was a question I was often asked by friends when I first mentioned that I would be going

Music It could be my advancing years or the death of my brain cells, but I am increasingly unable to

‘What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. ‘ Salman Rushdie In early January

Just so that I can say some things I have been wanting to say all year, I am going to

Ageing is a wondrous, eclectic, beautiful thing, to wit, a balding, greying man starting the day with Daft Punk, then singing

The first time I ever saw or heard of R.E.M was from a videotape recording of an MTV show that

I would have thought that by the time I got to this stage in my life I should be able

I am usually both excited and apprehensive when the legends announce a return. Excited, because we can never have enough

The old is definitely dying, even when the new hasn’t come. The blood that brought down the dictatorship of the

March 28, 2009. Abu Dhabi, UAE A streak of lightning zig-zags a damp Middle Eastern sky. I have been in

Baluch settlements on Makadara Road, Mombasa, 1920 They journeyed in the fabled dhows; white crescent sails blown by ocean winds, three