On trying to be a “world citizen”—and how expat life rarely delivers on its promises.
expats
Posted inEditor's Pick
Eastern Promises
“In a Tokyo of tourists, the citizens have become strangers.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
“America Does Not Deserve Me.” Why Black People Are Leaving the United States
“The expats forging new lives in Puerto Viejo are part of a wider exodus of Black Americans from the U.S. in recent years, with many leaving for reasons that are explicitly political.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Great Lockhart Exodus
“For some, Lockhart is a nostalgia trip across a past that may not have ever really existed. For others, it’s just an opportunity to build something better.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Ditch
“I might be a bilingual journalist, the holder of a Master’s degree from the Sorbonne, but navigating the world remained something he could do that I could not.”
Posted inNonfiction
Unleashed in Paris
As a semi-professional dog walker in Paris, expat Kate Gavino has found a comfortable way to learn French.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Story
Take Me Home
While teaching English to communist party officials in post-war Laos, Kathryn Kefauver Goldberg reflects on silence and the legacy of trauma.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
An Expat by Any Other Name (Is Sometimes a Digital Nomad)
When your Ubud neighborhood becomes a luxury tech bubble.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Unsettled
In Ubud, Indonesia, Jessa Crispin looks at the impact of next-generation expats — Western tech workers and “digital nomads” in search of carefully curated, long-term authenticity.
Posted inFeature
Home is a Cup of Tea
Sketch artist and writer Candace Rose Rardon tells the story of her search for home through the different teas she has discovered while traveling.