Now what I remember most about my guide is what he said about the Rohingya. But I walked 50 kilometers with him before he said it.
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Posted inCurrent Events, Editor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Uncomfortable Silences: A Walk in Myanmar
Now what I remember most about my guide is what he said about the Rohingya. But I walked 50 kilometers with him before he said it.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Uncomfortable Silences: A Walk in Myanmar
Now what I remember most about my guide is what he said about the Rohingya. But I walked 50 kilometers with him before he said it.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Cities in Me
A personal essay in which novelist Sorayya Khan maps her family’s path from Islamabad to Solvay.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story
Determined to Hitch a Ride on the Greatest Rig in America
Billy Gawronski was hell-bent on stowing away to Antarctica on Richard Evelyn Byrd’s 1928 expedition.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction
Determined to Hitch a Ride on the Greatest Rig in America
Billy Gawronski was hell-bent on stowing away to Antarctica on Richard Evelyn Byrd’s 1928 expedition.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Lost in Backcountry Corsica
When two Irish travelers take hiking advice from a supposed guide, they soon find themselves relying on their wits in the dark.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Don’t Let the Camels Bite You, and Other Lessons from a Long Walk in the Outback
“…the camels were always looking around as they walked, with a prospective optimism that eluded us.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism
Innocence Abroad
“I’d had no idea that we had ever had to define our identities at all, because to me, white Americans were born fully formed, completely detached from any sort of complicated past.”
Posted inQuotes
Lobster Shells in the Fountain and Other Hotel Mysteries
Some travelers can mystify even the most experienced butlers.