In the last three years I have driven along some of the smaller, less-travelled roads of the Mississippi Delta.
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Ken Light revisits the photos he took of immigrants crossing the border between Mexico and the US in the 1980s.
‘An intense workout is an ecstasy of punishment packaged as self-improvement.’
Mary Wellesley on exercise, ritual and Barry’s Bootcamp.
‘Feelings can be very obscure but numbers never lie.’
Kevin Brazil on metrics, obsession and fitness.
‘The islanders held him in a large dog cage under a banyan tree by the village square, awaiting the day when someone would convey him to a prison camp.’
Fiction by Tong Wei-Ger, translated by Tony Hao.
‘In a city where everyone knows everyone else and where there are secret agents everywhere - from the military, the police and the security forces - it's hard to believe that he was not found out.’
