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L'axe du loup 2/28/2022
Reading time: 5 minutes
It starts with a Polish cavalry officer.
Captured by the Soviets in 1939, Slawomir Rawicz is sent to a labor camp in Siberia.
He later escapes with six other prisoners. They travel south through...
The Art of Travel 12/31/2021
Reading time: 4 minutes
Wherever you go, there you are.
In other words: You bring you with you. For many situations, including travel, we should append a word to that sentence: You bring you with you—unfortunately.
In...
Afropean 8/6/2021
Reading time: 4 minutes
There is so much to love. And yet.
Coined by David Byrne of Talking Heads and Marie Daulne of Zap Mama, the term "Afropean," as we learn in Johny Pitts's book of the same name, is richly descr...
Red Dust 6/30/2021
Reading time: 4 minutes
Intellectuals can be elusive.
Scattered. Indefinite. A little odd.
Ma Jian is one such intellectual. Red Dust, a memoir of his travels through communist China in the mid 1980s, is not a bourgeo...
Eat Pray Love 6/10/2021
Reading time: 4 minutes
I get it.
No more than ten pages into Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love (the title is written interchangeably with commas and without), I understood why the book was a bestseller in 2006, and...
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