La Fiesta del Chivo (The Feast of the Goat) is a “darkly tragic” work by Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, who died this week aged 89.

Africa Is A Country described Lady Jaydee’s album Binti as an “ode to young Tanzanian women” still resonant after two decades.

Mario’s Café in London’s Kentish Town is among the finest “greasy spoons” in the capital, and was even featured in a Britpop song.

Japan’s ancient Goryokaku castle, site of the last battle of a 19th-century civil war, is “breathtaking,” a photographer said, especially in winter.

Towards a Nude Architecture explores how Japan’s famous hot-spring baths create a form of social equality known as “naked friendship.”