• Travel

    Food

    A Brief History of Onions in America

    On Ramps, Xonacatl, Skunk Eggs and More

     
    By Mark Kurlansky  November 9, 2023
    Classics

    How Jonathan Raban’s Passage to Juneau Decolonizes Nature Writing

    By Robert Macfarlane  September 11, 2023
    Vacations

    “Out of Time’s Monotone”: The Literary Life of the French Riviera

    By Jonathan Miles  September 6, 2023
    New York City

    How One Man Walked 6,000 Miles Across America’s Largest Metropolis

    By William B. Helmreich  August 11, 2023
    Art and Life

    Modern Tourism Makes It Difficult to Truly Appreciate the Sistine Chapel

    By Jeannie Marshall  July 19, 2023
    On Race

    How African American Sacrifice Abroad Was Ignored Back Home

    By Tamara J. Walker  June 21, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Cuisine

    Is There a French National Dish? On the History and Making of French Cuisine

    By Anya von Bremzen  June 20, 2023
    Sustainability

    Snapshots of the End of Travel: On Trying to Enter a Personal No-Fly Zone

    By Amy Benson  June 14, 2023
    Italy

    An Excellent View of Oblivion: On Italy’s Vanishing Towns

    By Dominic Smith  June 13, 2023
    Languages

    How Ancient and Modern Greek Helps Us Make Sense of Greece Today

    Nick Romeo on the Tradition of European Explorers in Greece

    By Nick Romeo  November 2, 2023
    Tourism

    The Advanced Guard of Tourism: Tracing a Direct Line Between the Lonely Planet Travel Guides and The Beach

    By James Brooke-Smith  May 5, 2023
    Writing Place

    What Lies Behind the Postcard: Jasmin Iolani Hakes on the New Meaning of Summer Reading

    By Jasmin Iolani Hakes  May 3, 2023
    Parenthood

    You Can Hate Leaving Your Child, and Be Glad You Went

    By Mary Louise Kelly  April 19, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    Is the Past a Literary Genre Unto Itself?

    Sophie Mackintosh Speculates on the Nature of Historical Speculation

    By Sophie MacKintosh  April 13, 2023
    AWP

    72 Hours in Seattle: Where to Eat, Drink, and Visit During AWP 2023

    By Literary Hub  March 7, 2023
    Exploration

    The Day Explorers Finally Found One of the World’s Great Lost Shipwrecks

    By Mensun Bound  March 3, 2023
    place

    “Where You Been? Why You Back? What You Doin Now?” Lakiesha Carr on Returning Home to Write

    By Lakiesha Carr  March 2, 2023
    Manifestoes

    In Search of Clear, Night Skies: On Preserving Earth’s Darkest Places

    Johan Eklöf Sheds Some Light on the Rise of Astrotourism

    By Johan Eklöf  February 15, 2023
    Keen On

    Bob Thompson Gets Into His Gas-Guzzling VW in Search of the American War of Independence

    By Keen On  February 8, 2023
    Travel Writing

    Surrounded by Wonders: Pico Iyer in Kashmir

    By Pico Iyer  January 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Why Travel Writing is a Form of Memoir and How Covid Has Changed How We See the World

    By Keen On  January 6, 2023
    Airports

    How Airports Liberate—and Constrain—Those Who Pass Through Them

    “In the airport, we are all divorced from whoever we were previously.”

    By Rhian Sasseen  December 20, 2022
    Travel

    Jan Morris Talks Travel, Dictionaries, and Other People’s Diaries

    By Paul Clements  December 13, 2022
    Keen On

    Why New York Should Be Savored on Foot Rather Than From an Automobile

    By Keen On  December 6, 2022
    News and Culture

    “The Land of the Muses.” How Sardinia Became Italy’s Island of Poets

    By Jeff Biggers  May 25, 2023
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