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Crossing a Bridge With Nowhere to Go

Crossing a Bridge With Nowhere to Go

On Seeking Solitude in a Crowded City

By Katie Shepherd | March 30, 2018

How to Visit the Graves of 75 Famous Writers

How to Visit the Graves of 75 Famous Writers

From crypts to hillsides to the Schomburg Center

By Emily Temple | March 26, 2018

Shannon Leone Fowler on Traveling After Her Fiancé's Death

Shannon Leone Fowler on Traveling After Her Fiancé's Death

In Conversation with Her Mother, Karen Joy Fowler

By Literary Hub | March 21, 2018

How Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton Became an International Celebrity

How Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton Became an International Celebrity

Glorifying Disaster in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

By Edward J. Larson | March 16, 2018

Why Do We Still Buy Mass-Produced Souvenirs?

Why Do We Still Buy Mass-Produced Souvenirs?

Rolf Potts on Tourism, Kitsch, and the Eternal Tchotchke

By Rolf Potts | March 8, 2018

The Transcendent Humanity of the Worst Cruise I Have Ever Taken

The Transcendent Humanity of the Worst Cruise I Have Ever Taken

Ramona Ausubel Tries—and Fails—To Find Her Ancestral Sealegs

By Ramona Ausubel | March 6, 2018

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Finding Yourself as a Writer in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

By Amelia Blanquera | February 14, 2018

5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Orange County

By Namrata Poddar | February 9, 2018

A Visual Tour of 35 Literary Bars and Cafés from Around the World

By Emily Temple | February 9, 2018

Paris's Literary Hotel, a Room (and Writer) for Each Letter of the Alphabet

Paris's Literary Hotel, a Room (and Writer) for Each Letter of the Alphabet

(But Are You Sure You Want to Stay in the Kafka Room?)

By Matt Grant | January 31, 2018

From the Mississippi Delta to Krakow's Old Town: A Writer's Journey

From the Mississippi Delta to Krakow's Old Town: A Writer's Journey

Steve Yarbrough Bears Witness to a Poland in Search of Itself

By Steve Yarbrough | January 29, 2018

Where Does London, the City, Really End?

Where Does London, the City, Really End?

Iain Sinclair Wanders Through the Edgelands

By Iain Sinclair | January 12, 2018

From Calcutta to Jersey and Back Again, an Epic Immigrant Journey

From Calcutta to Jersey and Back Again, an Epic Immigrant Journey

Kushanava Choudhury on the Immigrant's Homeward Gaze

By Kushanava Choudhury | January 12, 2018

Spending New Year's Eve On a Train With No Midnight

Spending New Year's Eve On a Train With No Midnight

Joseph Keckler: Citizen of the Future

By Joseph Keckler | December 29, 2017

A Journey Through Havana's Clandestine Book World

A Journey Through Havana's Clandestine Book World

Visiting Cuba's Hidden Library of Babel

By Ruben Gallo | December 21, 2017

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Cape Town

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Cape Town

Charming Old Book Shops and Dimly Lit Bars in the City by the Sea

By Ishay Govender-Ypma | December 15, 2017

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