Photo of Bo-Kaap, Cape Town by ilyas Ayub / Alamy.comTaking the measure of Cape Town’s many contradictions, a visiting writer also discerns its manifold richness.
One morning, twenty-four years ago o…
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Photo of Barcelona by ikuday / Stock.adobe.comMy amada and I arrived in Barcelona from Paris. We saw from the start the two cities have much in common. Both went through architectural reorganization i…
Photo of Bordeaux, France by JackF / Stock.adobe.comIn December 1801 the poet Friedrich Hölderlin accepted a position as tutor at the Bordeaux residence of German wine merchant Daniel Christoph Meyer.…
Photo by Reiseuhu and Katia De Juan / Unsplash.comLiterature can change the way we celebrate. The bull-running and fighting of Spain’s San Fermin festival was just a local affair before Hemingway brou…
Photo by Jacob Boomsma / istockphoto.comIn the Toronto airport, a young woman moved her bag from a seat so that someone might sit down. “You can sit here, eh. I’m from Brandon, in ‘Friendly Manitoba,’…
Photo by Javier Santos Guzmán on UnsplashSpeeding on a packed rush-hour Metrobus from La Bombilla (Lightbulb) station for Chilpancingo (Wasp), I suddenly imagined myself as one of countless urban part…
See something once, and you see it everywhere. In Quito’s old town it was geraniums: on the curly-whirly balconies, in the porticoes of the old baroque buildings, and the great open squares, there wer…
Photos courtesy of the authorIt’s a long way from Manhattan Island to King George Island—actually, it’s an epic trip from anywhere to Antarctica—and the wise traveler needs to make a stop, preferably…
Whitman Road, Nebraska Sandhills | Photo © Michael Forsberg | www.michaelforsberg.comSometimes referred to as “flyover states,” the states of the middle US are home to much worth seeing, including des…
THE ERASURE of spomeniks began little more than a decade after Marshal Tito’s death in 1980. The president of Yugoslavia had commissioned the construction of these Space Age monument…
Marfa Book Company, Photo: Jessica Powers IT ISN'T EASY to get to Redford, Texas. There’s only one road in or out, a two-lane highway that runs along the US–Mexico b…
The Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) is a unique museum nestled within the Seattle Center, steps away from the Space Needle. With permanent exhibits dedicated to the infinite worlds of sci-fi, the myths…
Scotwriter21, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons At the start of the summer, I set out on a long drive. I was headed to Texas from the Paci…
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