Travel

"It is better to travel well than to arrive." — Buddha

Visiting Elizabeth Bishop’s Maine
Thinking about Elizabeth Bishop’s Maine, Robert Lowell, and the personal.
Stephanie BernhardApr 13, 2014
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The Young Man and the Sea
The small, lovely, but difficult, ways human beings heal in a world rife with mistakes and misjudgments, wrongdoing and despair.
James Bernard FrostApr 9, 2014
Looking for the Light
Alison Barker reviews Ariel Gore’s complicated memoir about her role as her mother’s caretaker.
Alison BarkerApr 8, 2014
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The Ever-Shifting Status
The level of ingenuity in Stanley Crawford’s slim volume would be reason alone for its return to print.
Tobias CarrollApr 2, 2014
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Outsider: Donald Richie in Japan, 1947-2013
Colin Marshall looks at Donald Richie’s life in Japan through his works.
Colin MarshallMar 29, 2014
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Sochi As I Vaguely Remember It: A Drunken Travelogue
An experienced Russia traveler gives us a glimpse of the Russian people through a journey to Sochi long before its Olympic facelift.
Mark Lawrence SchradMar 8, 2014
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A Western Family’s China Saga
China Mission is an engrossing group biography and a valuable overview of a country’s turbulent transformations
Sheila K. JohnsonFeb 23, 2014
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Reporting on Afghanistan in the Shadow of the “I”
Helen BenedictFeb 1, 2014
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Breaking Up with New York
Mason Currey looks back on his love affair with New York in his review of Goodbye to All That.
Mason CurreyNov 17, 2013
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Around the World in Eighty Ways: On Circumnavigation
Jeffrey WasserstromJan 25, 2013
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