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Catching a Glimpse: Reflections of Solidarity in Elif Shafak’s There are Rivers in the Sky
Water is the unifying thread which ties our lives together, across manufactured constructs of space and time. Water does not know past or present, friend...
Midnight, at the War
[NEW YORK, MARCH 2003] — In the beginning I traveled in the hushed hours between midnight and dawn. I savored the quiet that fell over...
Grace
If there was anything Grace’s life had taught her, it was that love wasn’t a given. It could be taken away. Once she was no...
Colours of Hatred
It was towards the end of May. There had just been a sandstorm, and Dad’s car was covered in dust. He was washing it, and...
Book Excerpt: Nothing Tastes As Good
He’s full, but the Hunger remains. Always. The need to gorge, as sharp and primal as fear. A rampant desire that only the threat of...
OH HEMINGWAY!
Equal parts jet-lagged and hungover, I woke up the next morning with a face full of sunlight, and an ear full of snores—emanating from my...
Caillebotte: The Floor Scrapers
The impulse to fly came to Moshe as he prepared to leave the house on the morning of his wife’s funeral. He had no will...
Issue 15: Paris
Paris has long been the site of opulence, resistance, rebellion, and style. It has inspired great writing and writers, philosophy and philosophers. In this collection,...
Vacation in Darjeeling
It was a winter morning the train was crawling up the hill zigzag path between the bushes we were nearing to queen Darjeeling.
Gone: Encounters with Awe, Wonder and Reverence while Exploring the American West
Indeed, few experiences in life are finer than unzipping the door of your tent, deep in some remote wilderness, to reveal the weather and circumstances...
Between Memory and Geography: Julie Brill’s Hidden in Plain Sight
David looked up from the canvas that he was painting on the floor to check on the flurrying snow outside. He didn’t usually start getting...
Issue 14: Survival
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 14th edition, on the theme of ‘survival.’ Many thanks to all contributors and the editors...
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On Parties Gone Wrong
Our world was shaped by WWII. The conflict, which spanned the globe, and the order that came after it, shaped the way we now think...
Appalachian Fire: Activism in Demon Copperhead
Demon Copperhead is on fire. And he’d rather die than let that flame go out. From the moment he arrives – blue and cold and...
Issue 13: Fire
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 13th edition, on the theme of ‘fire.’ Fire: /ˈfʌɪə/ origin: Old English fȳr (noun), fȳrian...
The Cheesemaker's Daughter
When I heard that Kristin Vuković was publishing a novel about a family of cheesemakers, and that the story had an international backdrop connected to...
A Haunting of Memory
The tandem release of Faith Adiele’s two new books, Voice/Over and Her Voice, create a hand-in-hand hybrid memoir in two different forms. Her Voice is...
What Makes A Place Home
Marina Maržić’s life is in disarray. She is in her native Croatia, uncertain about returning to the marriage, job, and life she abruptly left behind...
Dreams of Lost Buttresses
Night after night, a young climber dreams of a singular buttress, lit gold by sun, on the vanishing point of the horizon. Each time she...
Issue 12: Cities
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 12th edition. In this issue, we present work on the theme of ‘cities,’ whether in...
Our Ailing Ecology Anthropomorphised
What destroys us is often unclear and obscure. Sickness works in mysterious ways. It takes time to manifest, sometimes years. Entropy advances in a roundabout...
Reading is an Ecological Act
The quiet, gentle, sometimes solitary but never lonely act of reading is one of the most radical actions one can take in the modern age....
Waves and Whalesong
‘Intertidal is the part of the shoreline that appears during low tide and is hidden during high tide. In some places it is thin, in...
A Review of Future Imperfect
There is one sentence in Babette Gallard’s novel, Future Imperfect (LightEye 2023), which continues to haunt me: ‘If someone had shown me this future before,...
Our Ailing Ecology Anthropomorphised
The rain hasn’t stopped for years. The continents are fractured, the beachfronts gone. Island nations have perished and the coastlines are lined with treetops, rooftops...
Cold Snap
In December, the valley cars barely turned over. Batteries died. Blankets were coiled on the sills of frosted windows, tacked over ill-fitting doors. Wood split...
Headstrap
This captivating chronicle delves into the untold story of a community that has played a significant role in mountain exploration and climbing in the Himalayas....
Alpine Rising
The name of Maurice Herzog, the first man to reach the summit of Annapurna, is widely recognized, but how many know Ang Tharkay, the Sherpa...
Future Imperfect
The streets are a spider’s web of new tributaries. Everything is under water. Don’t worry about us, but nothing is the same anymore. I was...
Issue 11: Ecology
Welcome to Panorama’s 11th edition. In this issue we turn our attention to ecology—from the word’s earliest roots to present-day ecologies which span people, organisms,...
Solace
Throughout my practice, I explore relationships, loneliness, longing, intimacy and the human urge for physical proximity. Intimacy between people (in friendship, family relationships as well...
Contemporary Film Directors: Kore-eda Hirokazu
This book provides an intervention in the English-language criticism on one of the most acclaimed international auteurs working today, Kore-eda Hirokazu (b. 1962). During his...
The Automata Chronicles: The Age of Ghostwriters
MacDonaldStrand’s latest project – a self-published photobook ‘The Automata Chronicles: The Age of Ghostwriters’ – is a contemporary AI-generated fable telling the rise of artificially...
Morocco: An Expression of Enchantment
While delving into my archives recently for a series of photomontages entitled A Sense of Place, I discovered a great many pictures I’d taken in...
Savage Noble
This coroneted town is like a queen, who, being always with child, has desires of irresistible fury […] She cleaves the world, illuminates it through...
Escape from the Taliban
I was woken by a desperate hammering on the door of our hotel room. I checked my watch. It was a little after ten, the...
Doll's Eye
Wet dawn. The wind moaned. White lightning hooked itself violently into the land. Overnight, the sky had cracked open entirely, rain spilling like grey ink...
Black Ghosts
The three of us were gathered around a counter, eyeing pornographic imagery. A Chinese vendor, a veiled-up Muslim lady from Niger, and me. We were...
From the Edge
‘Die with your boots on, if you’re gonna die.’ Eddie, an old friend of mine, taught me that. He was an ex-marine with three tours...
An Iteration of Reckoning
In this interview, Alton asked Lavinia about The Best Women’s Travel Writing anthology, the nebulous speculated futures of travel literature – in particular, travel writing...
Issue 10: Intimacy
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 10th edition. This issue focuses on INTIMACY in all its forms from a closeness and...
THE EAST: A Couple of Clactons
On the train to Essex, I realise I know little about Essex. And that little is scrappy and second-hand. Growing up in the 1990s, I...
A Review of Praisesong for the Widow
For Avey Johnson, the protagonist in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow, typical travel advisories are ill-equipped to outline the anguish and awakening she encounters...
The Long Journey
I was accustomed to the intense heat, but that morning it seemed to me unbearable. Perhaps because I was looking forward to completing my goal....
Elsewhere: A Reminder to Write Down Our Stories
I know I’m about to read a good travel story when it starts out with the unearthing of old, dusty journals. I know this because...
Six Saturdays of Beyblade
It was raining hard that night and the howls of stray dogs echoed across the village. What I remember from those scenes come as passing...
The Littoral Truth: The Granite Kingdom and Coast of Teeth
Where we live helps to frame our identity – it is not the only factor, but it is a significant influence on our language, our...
A Heart of Summer
I once lived in a three-bedroom unit in an elegant condominium in Simei, in Singapore. My two flatmates were fellow Filipinos: Antonio was an engineer,...
The Box with the Sunflower Clasp
To my great sadness, I have no memory at all of my mother’s voice. By the time I was three months old, Ilse had taken...
Book Review: Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir (Doubleday 2022) by Ingrid Rojas Contreras charts new territory in its genre by allowing for profound uncertainties...
Issue 9: Borders
In this issue we have work from India, Nigeria, Philippines, Israel, Netherlands, UK, USA, Brazil, South Korea, Thailand, Germany, Italy, and more. In many ways...
A Little Fire Burning
Come the festive season, I ponder on the scripture. I may be a free thinker invested in the future, not the past, yet the story...
So Will The Scribes
Critobulus, a Greek historian, scholar and politician was one of the scribes who documented the Fall of Constantinople and the Ottoman takeover of Byzantium, and...
Point Omega Renditions: A Book Review
Someone told me once that he’d read Point Omega by Don DeLillo with interest, but couldn’t connect with it. ‘Pointless,’ is how he described it....
Book Excerpt: The Waters of Manila Bay are Never Silent
What could be more peaceful or romantic than walking along a beach and watching the sun dip into the horizon, the sky a beautiful haze...
The Space In Their Lives I Had Left Behind
“… you remained misunderstood because you could not speak the language well enough. One learned to accept the frustration of not being able to express...
Book Review: The Shards
In the 594 pages of The Shards, the enfant terrible Bret Easton Ellis inhabits an excessive amount of space to recount a ‘fusion of fact...
Book Review: The Passenger
Infinity. Can’t be drawn. Can’t be said. Can’t be imagined. Couldn’t be grasped even if you could blindly feel around its edges. But it’s there....
Book Excerpt: The Middle Daughter
Within six months Mother not only buys the land, she also builds what she calls her ‘dream clinic’. Even for Mother, it is an incredible...
Book Excerpt: Peony Vertigo
I stole from you a noun hijacked a verb, I declared I’m mostly female, a peony in the mouth of spring, too late, I’ve constructed...
Book Excerpt: Halcyon Journey
Join me inside a camouflaged turkey-hunting blind as I observe a pair of skittish belted kingfishers feeding their chicks tucked deep in an earthen burrow...
Map of Hope and Sorrow: In Conversation with Helen Benedict
I recently chatted with Helen Benedict about her latest book, MAP OF HOPE AND SORROW, co-authored with Syrian writer and refugee, Eyad Awwadawnan, an in-depth...
Book Review: All The Honey
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, San Miguel County Colorado’s first poet laureate and Western Slope Colorado Poet Laureate, is a contemplative, committed, insightful poet. After dedicating more...
Issue 8: Space
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s SPACE issue. From the very small to the enormity of our imaginations, essays grow from...
Imaginary Peaks
Maps are instruments of knowledge, science, and faith. One trusts the ability of the mapmakers and their associates to measure the terrain accurately, and then...
Excerpt: In Every Mirror She's Black
Told through the perspectives of three Black women in Sweden, internationally-acclaimed and bestselling In Every Mirror She’s Black is a fast-paced, richly nuanced yet accessible...
Issue 7: Dawn
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s DAWN issue. This bright, awakening, and challenging composition comprises a multitude of world views, places,...
Monsoon Mansion, Election Day
I had almost forgotten that I was in some kind of war when I woke up on the first day of summer break to Norman...
A Stranger at Home: An Essay on Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland
On reading Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland, I find myself thinking about the notion of being a stranger at home, negotiating places you are supposed...
An Interview with Paul Kenyon
I’ve often thought that the interview is a separate genre of literature, right up the with the trio of poetry, prose and drama, above ‘genre’...
Yan Wang Preston: Interview and Images
The Yangtze River begins in Tibet and runs the length of China, dissecting the nation into North and South. At 6380 km long, it is...
Issue 6: War & Peace
Welcome to Panorama’s WAR & PEACE issue. This collection, months in the making, deeply explores the themes of war and peace, with a special emphasis...
In Conversation with Andrew Evans
Sunlight streams through the plate glass windows of The Dupont Circle Hotel’s elegant café on a Thursday during the quiet time between lunch and happy...
Hoja And His Shadow: Deconstructing Orhan Pamuk's White Castle
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk is a mystifying tale of confused identity, self-reflection, and a world caught between two versions of itself. More than...
Issue 5: Lost
Welcome to Panorama‘s long-awaited LOST, our fifth issue, which we are dedicating to the great traveller, Anthony Bourdain, whose recent passing has affected us all....
Issue 4: Seen
Perhaps more than any other time in recent history, how we see places and one another will determine what happens next to our human family....
Issue 3: Open
We present our panoramic vision of travel literature in our Spring ‘Open’ issue. A carefully curated collection of travel poetry, fiction, and memoir, the selections...
Issue 2: Treasures
Welcome to Panorama’s second issue. Panorama exists not only to publish extraordinary, diverse travel literature and imagery, but to widen the definition of what travel...
Breakfast for Alligators
From Tipped Hat Press comes a staggering explosion of travel through the Americas, a collection of 32 information-packed essays by traveller, essayist, and blogger, Darrin...
Weekend Reading
Read all articles, essays, poems, and stories published on Panorama on the weekends in between issues.
Book Review: An unreliable guide to London
Lord Kitchener, the late Trinidadian calypsonian, arrived in England on the Empire Windrush in 1948, with several songs in his back pocket. Kitchener, a then...
Issue 1: Firsts
Welcome to Panorama‘s first issue. Our purpose is to shift the perspective of travel literature and imagery towards a more panoramic, modern worldview, and we...