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Posted inEditor's Pick

The Great Lockhart Exodus

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 8, 2021October 19, 2022

“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

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 12, 2021October 19, 2022

“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.”

Illustrator Kate Gavino walks a group of dogs in Paris and speaks in French when giving commands.
Posted inNonfiction, Story

Unleashed in Paris

by Kate Gavino April 3, 2019October 19, 2022

As a semi-professional dog walker in Paris, expat Kate Gavino has found a comfortable way to learn French.

Illustrator Kate Gavino walks a group of dogs in Paris and speaks in French when giving commands.
Posted inNonfiction

Unleashed in Paris

by Kate Gavino April 3, 2019April 21, 2023

As a semi-professional dog walker in Paris, expat Kate Gavino has found a comfortable way to learn French.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story

Take Me Home

by Kathryn Kefauver Goldberg September 29, 2017October 19, 2022

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)

by benhuberman July 20, 2017October 19, 2022

When your Ubud neighborhood becomes a luxury tech bubble.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Unsettled

by benhuberman July 17, 2017October 19, 2022

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

by Candace Rose Rardon July 3, 2017October 18, 2022

Sketch artist and writer Candace Rose Rardon tells the story of her search for home through the different teas she has discovered while traveling.

Postcard from Vienna, 1906 (Public Domain)
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes

Can You Return To a Place That Was Never Your Home?

by Pam Mandel June 7, 2017October 19, 2022

Grace Linden considers repatriation to Austria — a place she has never lived.

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