A Sensitivity to Things

“Go to the French cafe by the departure gate. It’s got really good coffee, and sandwiches too.”
Dressed like a character from a Jack Kerouac novel, a connoisseur of places subterranean, my friend knows his coffee, and the city he lives in does too. Forget paired and halved slices of bread, I have been in Melbourne [...]

Japanese Prime Minister-elect Yukio Hatoyama did the impossible last week, a landslide victory won for his Democratic Party of Japan, an unprecedented reversal of election fortune over the incumbent Liberal Democratic Party, who have ruled Japan for all but 11 months since 1955.
Retired actress, author, lifestyle guru and wife of the Prime Minister, Miyuki [...]