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Floating Through Bangkok

In the hotel lobby, my sister and I walk towards the concierge and ask him to translate for us, into Thai script, the names of places we want to go to. I feel helpless at this, this lack of knowing Thai with such absoluteness. Afterwards, he gives us a hotel brochure to use as a…
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Good Kid, M.A.A.D City

It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends. —Joan Didion, “Goodbye to All That” Nairobi began for me one day about ten years ago. I was eighteen years old and it was a few months after I finished high school. I’d just gotten off the bus station near Odeon…