- Buttering the tiger (No. 48)
Visiting a former student turned successful businessman in China [personal history]
- The many trials of Mr Horse (No. 52)
Drinks with a Chinese James Bond [essay]
- Blind dating in Bishkek (No. 56)
Adventures with OkCupid in Kyrgyzstan [essay]
- A sixth memo for this millennium (No. 59)
Imagining Calvino’s unwritten lecture [speculation]
- Cutting grass and wood (No. 64)
Work and money in rural Hunan [reportage]
- The Ascent of Stromboli (No. 93)
An active volcano and the lure of the crater [personal history]
- Rocks and Sand (No. 95)
In the deserts of eastern Morocco [essay]