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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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...