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Apple weather

Our days reach the perfection of fruit about to fall. Drifts of sunlight pile against the trees, and deep pools of shadow wait in their...

Mountain Weather

As soon as I woke up, I thought, please let today be different. For a moment, I lay still, repeating those words in my head,...

What Would He Have Said?

To Pay Our Respects. As we stand at the gates of the Mauthausen concentration camp, more than at any other time previously, I feel acutely...

Pastizzi

I am twenty years old and have just eaten what I think is the most perfect pastry in the world. But I think I’m 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,...

Cruise Line Chronicles

On the port of Haifa, in a stale boardroom, a young American with a forced smile representing the Rhapsody of the Sea, a cruise ship...

Duino Castle and Rainer Maria Rilke

I have never met you. How could I have? You died twenty-seven years before I was born. That is why I am at Duino Castle...

Bio: John Peter Askew

“My first camera was a 21st birthday present from my father. Sometimes presents can be things that you don’t really like or want but I...

São Paulo, Brazil

Waldemar Adelino da Silva was one of nearly 26,000 Brazilian soldiers, called expedicionários, who fought under the command of US forces in northern Italy during...

The Eagle and the Phoenix

What was once the sulfuric taste of mortar blasts or the iron tint of blood has become the taste of red peppers. Cigarette smoke has...

The Complacency of Place

The path is marked at regular intervals by plaques bearing the symbol of the journey, a scallop half-shell, set into walls and street signposts. My...

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...

Partition, Migration and Immigration as Travel Stories: Stories of Three Women Who Wro(i)te

Where I come from, we talk about distance in memories. Remember when your mother tied the suitcase with a chain to the railway berth so...

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....

How to Plant Roots in the Sand

The thunder and lightning crash so hard around my home it knocks paintings from the wall and tchotchkes to the floor. A wall of rain...

Byron and Hobhouse in the Bernese Oberland

Lord Byron and John Cam Hobhouse were university chums. Hobby had been best man at Byron’s unlikely and short-lived wedding to Annabella Milbanke in 1815,...

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...

James Baldwin: Flaneur de Couleur

I went to Santo Domingo, a sweltering, smoggy metropolis on the edge of a half-island in the Caribbean, as part of my undergraduate university’s study...

Masthead

Led by Director and Chief Exec, Matthew Webb, over 120 editors, writers, and other contributors including Troy Onyango, Faith Adiele, Nicolas D. Sampson, Marie Baleo,...