As passports give way to fingerprinting and retinal scans, our bodies themselves become tools to limit our free movement.
Travel
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Rules For Departure
An excerpt from Rachel Z. Arndt’s new essay collection, Beyond Measure. While hitching a ride to a week-long bike tour, Arndt considers the rituals of leaving — and making a clean break.
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 inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
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.”