- I and e (No. 5)
The romance of e-mail [essay]
- On getting paid to read the TLS (No. 8)
A year and a half reading periodicals and ‘spending all day writing things that never get into print’ [journal]
- Reunion (No. 11)
An American émigré attends her high-school reunion, in Oregon. [essay]
- As good as the moon every time (No. 14)
A tourist in Sri Lanka [essay]
- If a guy doesn’t think this is fun… (No. 16)
On playing basketball, and giving it up [memoir]
- Two visits to Kosovo (No. 18)
Dispatch from a province whose prime minister is about to be indicted for war crimes [essay]
- Natural and unnatural disasters (No. 22)
In post-tsunami Sri Lanka, is the civil war heating up? [travel]
- Our own George Clooney (No. 29)
The suffering of Somalia [essay]
- Axel’s entourage (No. 38)
A strong man in Vietnam [personal history]
- (No. 40)
Ten years, ten questions [our anniversary questionnaire]
- The great sentimental complication (No. 42)
The author, heartsick, travels to Ethiopia [personal history]
- These are my floods (No. 47)
Tales of an accidental immigrant and an ambivalent emigrant [personal history]
- Love stories (No. 57)
Those who rose to the occasion, and those who could not [essay]
- Number 9 (No. 25)
A traveller, a hotel employee, and the discreet guest house down the road [short story]
- The real world (No. 72)
The complicated romances of childhood [short story]