• 📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY June 4th! It’s June 4th. For 34 years Tiananmen has loomed especially large around the anniversary. Much of last week I was writing about the period as I finished my review of Julian Gewirtz’s Never…

    [JUST ANOTHER DAY] Sabina Knight
  • 📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY June 4th is Now a Ghost Festival Since 2019, so many places in Hong Kong have become haunted that we are all used to ghosts. They bleed into the fabric of everyday life, and it’s…

    [JUST ANOTHER DAY] HW
  • 📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Today is Mother’s Day here, so, a few hours out of the Sisyphus paper-grading: up at 10:30 am, which means six hours of sleep, then a while to get ready, eat a little, go drive…

    [JUST ANOTHER DAY] Cyril Camus
  • 📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I left my apartment at the worst possible time. There was a moment when I almost took the bus, only I glanced at my phone, knew I had time to walk, and did. But I…

    [JUST ANOTHER DAY] Laura Wang
  • 📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Performance Art in a “City Without Protest” Hongkongers have long visually resisted the domination of the Chinese communist Leviathan and its collaborators in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) regime. From supporting the democracy…

    [JUST ANOTHER DAY] Daniel Garrett
  • 📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I got up early, dressed quickly, had some coffee and a bowl of yogurt with blueberries and raspberries, and got in the elevator at 8:30 am, along with the security man who was finishing his…

    [JUST ANOTHER DAY] Beth Adams
  • 📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Today was a sunny day, so this afternoon I decided to visit a couple of Hong Kong’s urban parks. I headed off from my home in Sheung Wan soon after lunch and boarded a tram…

    [JUST ANOTHER DAY] David Clarke
  • 📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Your father and aunt were writing to prisoners today. Neat letters with kind words. My page stayed blank, and I felt selfish. I couldn’t write, not even to you. I went to the place where…

    [JUST ANOTHER DAY] Elizabeth Hay
  • 📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Walked my dog in the evening and ran into a gaggle of policemen downstairs handling a domestic dispute. Headed home and read some poems to avoid scanning the news lest I see familiar faces being…

    [JUST ANOTHER DAY] KW Tse
  • 📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I get up eventually. I’m happy. It is an incredibly bright day. I read. I think about Jack Spicer’s Martian in his brilliant lectures in The House that Jack Built (Wesleyan University Press, 1998), edited by…

    [JUST ANOTHER DAY] Robert Kiely