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It's been brutally hot and, at times, fairly airless in Saigon this week, which reminds me of this old piece of fiction set in Hanoi when 'we' had no aircon (and when uncle Leo was up to no good).
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In 2019, I wrote this paean to my local neighbourhood in Saigon. Although I worry one small part of it is becoming too much of a 'Pub Street', it's…
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First published by Eksentrika (2022), this satirical story, written in peak pandemic times, began as a spoof of Mr. Murakami's oeuvre but unfurled into…
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I first wrote this in 2017 and even though downtown HCMC has got much busier at Tet in recent years, it mostly holds up (I have updated it a smidge…
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Having watched ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ the other night, I thought I'd re-post this short story, which also features some desperate, maudlin men who…
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An essay on expatriate nostalgia in a rapidly developing metropolis.
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THIS WEEK, I spent a day and a bit thinking about a grand old building we can easily take for granted here in Saigon. The Central Post Office…
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I wrote about Veto Baker before, but as its 50 years to the month that he ran out on the US military to be with the Vietnamese woman he loved, here's a…
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