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There are around two hundred faces on that wall, in a room off the ring road in Kathmandu, arranged in no order I could work out. Passport photographs, mostly, some cut from group pictures. The age…

The loan officer in Besisahar showed me a ledger of forty-one outstanding agricultural loans, of which he expected to recover perhaps thirty-five. On the remaining six, the security was land. He ha…

I wrote nine hundred words about a sound editor in March. Real words — what she actually did, which was a specific and difficult thing involving the way a room sounds when someone stops talking in …

The minute book for the Hollis County Board of Education runs from 1889 to 1961, in four volumes, in a climate-controlled room in the basement of a courthouse annex. The handwriting changes six tim…

The rural municipality's capital budget in the second year of the new structure was, in round numbers, twelve crore. It returned a little over four. Not stolen — returned, to the federal treasury, …

The fence runs for about nine kilometres along the north side of the valley, four strands of wire on steel posts, put in over two summers in the late 2000s. Inside it the ground cover is visibly be…

The school in the village goes to class ten. Class eleven and twelve — what everybody calls plus two — are in the town, which is two and a half hours by bus when the road is open and is not always …

The register at the sub-centre has a column headed cause of death, and for the entry I was looking at, a man of fifty-four who died at home in September, it said fever. That is the whole entry. The…

The video of the March 4 city council meeting has forty-one views. I am responsible for nine of them.

The officials who sit through public comment at the county budget hearing and privately describe it as theatre are right about the comments. I have listened to eleven years of them. A large share a…