City life between memory and change

Rob Schmitz, a radio correspondent, follows the residents of one Shanghai street over several years as the city changes around them and their own lives change with it.

Peter Hessler recounts two years teaching English literature in Fuling, a small city on the Yangtze, in the late 1990s, as the town and his students faced rapid change.

Nina Mingya Powles writes about a year of eating in Shanghai, moving among food memories from Wellington and Kota Kinabalu and thinking about family and her Chinese-Malaysian heritage.

Matthew Beaumont traces the history of walking London at night, from medieval curfews to Dickens, and the poor, the restless and the writers who went out after dark.

Matthew Beaumont follows pedestrians through modern literature, from Dickens and Poe to Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and Ray Bradbury, to show what walking reveals about city life.