Outside perspectives on the world, with all its craziness and beauty.

God's world

A Wizard's field notes ~ Art, politics, magic ~ City-watching, beach-combing, omens, ideas ~ A zuihitsu of the weirdinary

Suburban neurosis delivered with love from Karori, Wellington

Dispatches from life in South Korea and the other places I go and people I meet along the way.

A newsletter on arts and culture

Public interest journalism about NZ’s housing, climate and poverty crises

✍️ Finding meaning by staying in place. Living in Barcelona & renovating a 250-year-old home in the countryside. 🏠🇪🇸

A podcast about living in authoritarian times. Jeremy Goldkorn and Maria Repnikova interview people who've lived through or studied periods of upheaval or tyranny, or thrived under strongman rule.