The Cu Chi Tunnel Mantra: How Killing Fields Became a Jungle Gym

If any stage of the Cu Chi Tunnels was going to activate my claustrophobia, this was it. I had answered the tour guide’s call for a skinny tourist, but now they were asking too much, this tour guide and military-drab chaperone. Yes, I will pose inside the tunnel entrance with trap door held aloft while [...]

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Update Saigon

It’s been a busy few days here in Ho Chi Minh City. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s going on and what’s to come:
1. I’ve moved into and (partially) furnished an apartment with Sarah in a new apartment complex in District 7. We were hoping for a house rental nearer to the center, but thanks [...]

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Reading Geoff Dyer at the MET

It turns out the Walker Evans Archive at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art is named thusly for a reason. If it were on exhibit, it would be called the Walker Evans Exhibit.
I visited the MET after finishing The Ongoing Moment, Geoff Dyer’s not-quite-comprehensive survey of photography. Dyer writes considerably on Evans, and I [...]

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