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Impermanence and Eternity on a Weeklong Walk in the Sahara

Impermanence and Eternity on a Weeklong Walk in the Sahara

Anna Badkhen the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | March 15, 2021

Why We Travel: On America’s Wide-Eyed Tourist Gaze

Why We Travel: On America’s Wide-Eyed Tourist Gaze

Andru Okun Wonders If We’re in the Middle of a Second “Memory Emergency”

By Andru Okun | March 11, 2021

Octavia Butler is now officially on Mars.

Octavia Butler is now officially on Mars.

By Walker Caplan | March 8, 2021

Read the newly announced inscription for the Barack Obama Presidential Library.

Read the newly announced inscription for the Barack Obama Presidential Library.

By Walker Caplan | March 8, 2021

Edvard Munch taking criticism badly is all of us.

Edvard Munch taking criticism badly is all of us.

By Walker Caplan | February 24, 2021

Feast your eyes on this gorgeous Tokyo bookshop-slash-hotel.

Feast your eyes on this gorgeous Tokyo bookshop-slash-hotel.

By Walker Caplan | February 23, 2021

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The Unlikely Celebration of Fireflies in a Declining City of Japan’s Far North

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The Struggle to Define Wilderness: On Encountering John Muir in Bear Country

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Chronicles of a Writer's 1950s Road Trip Across France

Chronicles of a Writer's 1950s Road Trip Across France

Kathleen Newton Phelan: "I live on the road, have no home or fixed residence."

By Kathleen Phelan | February 9, 2021

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Ian Bradley on Health Tourism, Illness, and Therapy

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André Aciman: On Yearning for the Not-Yet and What Could Have Been

André Aciman: On Yearning for the Not-Yet and What Could Have Been

"The irrealis mood disrupts all verbal tenses, moods, and aspects."

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Living That Van Life, Before It <br>Was a Hashtag

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