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Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.

Embodying Venus

I HAVE A clear memory of the buttons – large, translucent-white plastic – and the teacher’s fingers unbuttoning the...

A Christmas story

JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT, six soldiers were shot in their beds in the Officers’ Quarters on Christmas Island. Their bodies...

Know thy neighbour

WHENEVER THE DOORBELL rings late at night in our small Peking University apartment, we know who to expect. Our...

Set it down!

WAR IS A particularly slippery subject for any cold eye to fasten on. In May 2014 I was walking...

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