A coming-of-age novel by David Shams. Set in Bardstown, Kentucky, exploring first-generation identity, family, and soccer.

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Tokyo is warmly kid-friendly, but wildly kid-inaccessible. Here is what happened when we took our toddlers to Japan for a week.

Tokyo is warmly kid-friendly, but wildly kid-inaccessible. Here is what happened when we took our toddlers to Japan for a week.

An essay on mother-son relationships, presence over busy travel schedules, and discovering history together in Warsaw and Kraków.

An essay on mother-son relationships, presence over busy travel schedules, and discovering history together in Warsaw and Kraków.

A photo essay from Mutianyu exploring the contrast between the quiet village life in the valley below and the Great Wall high in the ridges above.

A photo essay from Mutianyu exploring the contrast between the quiet village life in the valley below and the Great Wall high in the ridges above.

A photo essay from Mutianyu exploring the contrast between the quiet village life in the valley below and the Great Wall high in the ridges above.

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The manuscript is back in the publishing black box, and social media prep is officially underway. In this month’s newsletter: book rollout updates, Kraków travels with family, and spy fiction reviews.

Cinematic street photography and cultural essays chronicling the grit, beauty, and absurdity of global life through the eyes of an Iranian-American expat. Click to read Dispatches from an Iranian…

The manuscript is back in the publishing black box, and social media prep is officially underway. In this month’s newsletter: book rollout updates, Kraków travels with family, and spy fiction reviews.

The manuscript is back in the publishing black box, and social media prep is officially underway. In this month’s newsletter: book rollout updates, Kraków travels with family, and spy fiction reviews.

Local enough that everyone knew us. Foreign enough that no one quite knew what to do with us. That's what it meant to grow up in Bardstown, Kentucky — and it's why I wrote a novel about it.

Local enough that everyone knew us. Foreign enough that no one quite knew what to do with us. That's what it meant to grow up in Bardstown, Kentucky — and it's why I wrote a novel about it.

Local enough that everyone knew us. Foreign enough that no one quite knew what to do with us. That's what it meant to grow up in Bardstown, Kentucky — and it's why I wrote a novel about it.

Local enough that everyone knew us. Foreign enough that no one quite knew what to do with us. That's what it meant to grow up in Bardstown, Kentucky — and it's why I wrote a novel about it.