Term: Book Excerpt

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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...

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...

Infinite scroll

Scroll through all work published by Panorama in one long infinitely scrolling page.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Weekend Reading

Read all articles, essays, poems, and stories published on Panorama on the weekends in between issues.

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...
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