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Trying to Figure Out Bruce Chatwin's Unpublished<br> Magnum Opus

Trying to Figure Out Bruce Chatwin's Unpublished
Magnum Opus

Jeremy Klemin on a Legendary Travel Writer's Attempt
to Figure It All Out

By Jeremy Klemin | May 20, 2019

Win an organic farm in upstate New York by... writing an essay?

Win an organic farm in upstate New York by... writing an essay?

By Corinne Segal | May 15, 2019

Gabriel García Márquez on<br> Life in 1950s Paris

Gabriel García Márquez on
Life in 1950s Paris

City of Light, City of Darkness

By Gabriel García Márquez | May 14, 2019

Balancing Power in the Lebanese Borderlands

Balancing Power in the Lebanese Borderlands

Alev Scott at the Edge of a Syrian Refugee Camp in Arsal

By Alev Scott | May 9, 2019

Revolutionary Travel Writer <br>Georg Forster's Passionate Beginnings

Revolutionary Travel Writer
Georg Forster's Passionate Beginnings

"Without experience... We can possess no knowledge of the world."

By Jürgen Goldstein | May 6, 2019

From Sally Rooney to John Cheever, 6 Unforgettable Fictional Vacations

From Sally Rooney to John Cheever, 6 Unforgettable Fictional Vacations

Chip Cheek Recommends Some Vicarious Travel

By Chip Cheek | May 2, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

How to Be a Normal Person
in Hollywood

By Melanie Benjamin | April 25, 2019

Finding My Character's Home
on Google Street View

By Lydia Fitzpatrick | April 24, 2019

Can You Save a Dying Italian Town with the Art of Storytelling?

By Alessandra Bergamin | April 23, 2019

How to Spend a Literary Long <br>Weekend in Asheville

How to Spend a Literary Long
Weekend in Asheville

Follow the paths of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolff, Carl Sandburg, and More

By Literary Hub | April 18, 2019

Autumn in Japan and the Ways We Cling to Dying Things

Autumn in Japan and the Ways We Cling to Dying Things

Pico Iyer on the Beauty of Impermanence

By Pico Iyer | April 17, 2019

Red State Blues: Traveling in Transition

Red State Blues: Traveling in Transition

On Samantha Allen's Real Queer America and Venturing Beyond Comfort Zones

By Veronica Esposito | April 8, 2019

How to Spend a Literary Long <br>Weekend in Queens, NY

How to Spend a Literary Long
Weekend in Queens, NY

Unsurprisingly, Literary Queens Holds Its Own Against Brooklyn and Manhattan

By Sara Finnerty | April 5, 2019

On the Stray Dogs of Mexico City: <br>a History and a Hymn

On the Stray Dogs of Mexico City:
a History and a Hymn

Chloe Aridjis Wanders from the Novels of Juan Rulfo to the Beaches of Oaxaca

By Chloe Aridjis | April 1, 2019

James Baldwin Might Have Been Most<br> at Home in Istanbul

James Baldwin Might Have Been Most
at Home in Istanbul

Hilal Isler on Finding Home When You're Not Looking for It

By Hilal Isler | March 29, 2019

5 Reasons a Writer Should <br>Move to London

5 Reasons a Writer Should
Move to London

No, Not the Small City in Southern Ontario

By Christine Ro | March 29, 2019

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