“Where do we draw the line between writing about ‘travel’ and writing about ‘place’?”
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Lost in Japan
Sarah Miller travels to Japan to learn more about sochu, and ends up learning more about her own limitations as a traveler.
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A Resolute 2017: A Reading List
In 2016, I published my New Year’s resolutions on Longreads. As 2017 dawns, I thought I’d check in with my old self, dust off 2016’s goals and set some new intentions.
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A Resolute 2017: A Reading List
In 2016, I published my New Year’s resolutions on Longreads. As 2017 dawns, I thought I’d check in with my old self, dust off 2016’s goals and set some new intentions.
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The ‘Shaman’: A Committed Solo Traveler Struggles to Reconcile Being Raped While Abroad
As an avid solo traveler—and proponent of the empowerment traveling alone can offer women—Laura Yan has been conflicted about revealing she was raped in Bolivia.
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The ‘Shaman’: A Committed Solo Traveler Struggles to Reconcile Being Raped While Abroad
As an avid solo traveler—and proponent of the empowerment traveling alone can offer women—Laura Yan has been conflicted about revealing she was raped in Bolivia.
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Travel, Foreignness, and the Spaces in Between: A Pico Iyer Reading List
Seven reads by Pico Iyer on travel and finding one’s place in the world.
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The Wandering Years
Thoughts, observations, and reflections from the travel journals of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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The Wandering Years
Thoughts, observations, and reflections from the travel journals of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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The Rise of Independent Travel Magazines
Subject matter can be almost self-consciously esoteric. The latest issue of Ernest includes a piece by Queen guitarist Brian May on diableries (19th-century stereoscopic photographs of clay model demons). Cereal has 10 pages on Anglepoise lamps; Avaunt has a feature headlined “Politics of map projections”. The new magazines also move away from the traditional “colonial” […]