Meantime #5 Breakup Stories

The issue explores the theme of breakup stories, revisiting history through moments of separation, heartbreak and fractured relationships. The narratives move between micro and macro-histories, from personal breakups to Singapore’s split from Malaysia. The book's materiality is reimagined by asking, what if a book could shatter like glass? Inspired by kintsugi, the art of repairing broken pottery with gold, the metaphor of making the broken beautiful runs throughout the issue, starting from the cover to the inside stories, demonstrating that our pasts, even the broken ones, stay with us.