If land and countries could be compared to girls, this country would be the one girl you fell hopelessly in love with the second you looked at her face; her every gesture and lilting laugh was an expression of stunning radiance. He remembered the air being thick with almost painful beauty, every breath a cocktail...

The midnight vigils at his study table, the massive amounts of textbooks and reference booklets borrowed and borrowed again, the expenditure of liters’ worth of ink on past years and practice sheets—all came to mind as he joined the crowd in front of the notice board. He can no longer remember the last time he...

The Aztecs saw the doom of their civilization foretold by a bleeding omen hanging in the night sky. I see the imminent demise of our generation when a mother pays $4,000 for a record company to produce a music video of her daughter singing with a voice so heavily autotuned that all trace of the...