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Courage, Wilderness, Self, and Other: A Reading List of Exploration

Courage, Wilderness, Self, and Other: A Reading List of Exploration

Lindy Elkins-Tanton on the Books That Inspired Her Journeys

By Lindy Elkins-Tanton | June 28, 2022

What It Was Like on a Cruise Ship the Night Before COVID Shut the World Down

What It Was Like on a Cruise Ship the Night Before COVID Shut the World Down

On the Zaandam, Where the Band Continued to Play

By Michael Smith and Jonathan Franklin | June 22, 2022

Brazilian Rhythms, Queer Longing, and Caio Fernando Abreu: A Literary Playlist

Brazilian Rhythms, Queer Longing, and Caio Fernando Abreu: A Literary Playlist

Bruna Dantas Lobato on the Music That Helps Her Translate

By Bruna Dantas Lobato | June 17, 2022

“I do not like people whose principal aim is pleasure.” When James Baldwin Went to Fire Island

“I do not like people whose principal aim is pleasure.” When James Baldwin Went to Fire Island

Jack Parlett on Where the Iconic Writer Wrote Another Country

By Jack Parlett | June 14, 2022

Art Buchwald in Paris: Fan Letters from Steinbeck, and an Invite to the Most Famous Wedding in the World

Art Buchwald in Paris: Fan Letters from Steinbeck, and an Invite to the Most Famous Wedding in the World

On the Legendary Humorist’s Time with Ben Bradlee, Humphrey Bogart, and the Windsors

By Michael Hill | June 13, 2022

Summer Vacations Are a 19th-Century Invention of the Rich

Summer Vacations Are a 19th-Century Invention of the Rich

Charles McGrath on the Ritualizing of Idleness

By Charles McGrath | June 8, 2022

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How a 1970s Literary Travelogue Can Transform Us All

By David Santos Donaldson | June 7, 2022

Visiting My Feminist Foremothers in a Mostly Inaccessible City

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Confessions From a Lifetime of Looking

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Trieste vs. Milan, Poetry vs. Plot: Beppe Severgnini on the Italian Love—And Need—For Poetry

Trieste vs. Milan, Poetry vs. Plot: Beppe Severgnini on the Italian Love—And Need—For Poetry

“Poetry belongs not only to those who write it but also to those who read it and listen to it.”

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Searching for the Ghosts of My Father’s Life in Hungary

Searching for the Ghosts of My Father’s Life in Hungary

Karen Winn on Traveling Overseas to Find the Parent She Had Lost

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Searching for a Lost History in Modern-Day Russia

Searching for a Lost History in Modern-Day Russia

Marcia DeSanctis Tries to Reconcile Her Love of Russian Lit with Putin’s Ascendancy

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How Airline Stewardesses Fought Their Industry’s Toxic Patriarchal Norms

How Airline Stewardesses Fought Their Industry’s Toxic Patriarchal Norms

Nell McShane Wulfhart on Feminist Rebellion in the Unfriendly Skies

By Nell McShane Wulfhart | April 20, 2022

How Losing the Tether of Language Helped Me Process Grief

How Losing the Tether of Language Helped Me Process Grief

Amanda Bestor-Siegal on Her Year in Paris

By Amanda Bestor-Siegal | April 18, 2022

Anton Chekhov’s Beloved Summer Home in Ukraine is Under Threat

Anton Chekhov’s Beloved Summer Home in Ukraine is Under Threat

Alison Anderson on an Important Cultural Landmark

By Alison Anderson | March 29, 2022

Travel Truth #1: It Doesn’t Matter How Far We Go, We’ll Never Escape Ourselves

Travel Truth #1: It Doesn’t Matter How Far We Go, We’ll Never Escape Ourselves

Brandon Presser in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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