The Forgotten Highway
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by Rowan Johnson Winding through a desolate “hinterland” of South Africa known as the Karoo and into the sandy dunes and grasslands of the Kalahari Desert, there is an ancient…
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Montmartre en Chansons with Anne Sophie Guerrier
When I imagine guided tours, I think to myself. “I’d rather be spontaneous than follow someone with an itinerary for hours” “Montmartre en Chansons” has erased that narrow mentality and…
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Joyce Carol Oates Wins Fitzgerald Prize at Hôtel Belles Rives
By Monique Santos Joyce Carol Oates, one of America’s most talented writers, who has produced a vast amount of literary work has won the Fitzgerald Prize at the elegant Hôtel…
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Italo Calvino’s Eyes
I first discovered Italo Calvino, through my brother. He and I share a love of literature. As an older brother, he always took it upon himself to educate his little…
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The Lost Chance
By Michael Latta It’s 1957. I’m in my next to last year at the LA Art Center College. Broke. Then an uncle died, leaving me $10,000. What would you have…
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Kyoto: Where the Cuckoo Calls
By Suzanne Kamata “even in Kyoto I long for Kyoto— cuckoo!” –Matsuo Basho (1644-94)* My story begins at Kyoto Station, where I alight after a three-hour bus ride. It is…
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Don’t Be Afraid: A poem becomes a treasure map in Ireland
By Leslie Waugh Ireland had long been on my list of places to visit, and after a fantastic two weeks in Iceland in July this year, my husband and I…
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Seeking Slowness
By Benjamin Jackson In 1996, time became frenetic, out-of-control, frightening. The world was balancing on a fulcrum between old and new—notepads giving way to networks, mail to modems, pensions to…
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A Moment of Glory in Communist Poland
By Michelle Lawson It was 1971 in a nightclub somewhere near Gdynia in Poland. Men held me close as we danced to Je t’aime, an infamous chart-topper banned from British…
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Freya Stark’s Afghanistan
By Katherine Gypson “This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly becomes part…
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