“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.”
Travel
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Lobster Shells in the Fountain and Other Hotel Mysteries
Some travelers can mystify even the most experienced butlers.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
In Foreign Territory, Wondering: Who is the Alpha Monkey?
Leigh Shulman learns the meaning of home and belonging when she volunteers at a monkey refuge with her nine-year-old daughter.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
In Foreign Territory, Wondering: Who is the Alpha Monkey?
Leigh Shulman learns the meaning of home and belonging when she volunteers at a monkey refuge with her nine-year-old daughter.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
In Guatemala on the Wrong Bus
Sarah Miller travels in exactly the way she’d hoped to avoid.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
Can You Return To a Place That Was Never Your Home?
Grace Linden considers repatriation to Austria — a place she has never lived.
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America’s Great Lake, or the Greatest Lake?
At Outside, Stephanie Pearson explores Lake Superior’s extreme history, expanse, diversity, and dangers.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Tyranny of Free Time, or How to Be Bored In Fiji
Mary Mann lays bare what most travelers are loathe to admit: it’s just as easy to be bored in Paris or on Bora Bora as it is at home.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Thomas Cook and the Stack Pirates
Boredom and an enterprising Brit gave birth to the modern tourism industry, and we’re still trying to make sense of it all.
Posted inCommentary, Essays & Criticism, History, Quotes
The Lost Art of Getting Lost
Pam Mandel’s absurdly earned travel resume is why she always have time for the same sentiments from other voices of this rootless era.