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At Kew Gardens

At Kew Gardens, it rests in a shallow pool. Platen leaves radiate, nourished by cable-like stalks, centrally anchored. The palms are airy and colossal; the...

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...

The Long Road Home, 2011

A young guy in suction-cup jeans and laced-up white high-tops stares at me, then glances down, then briefly looks ahead as if sending Morse Code....

Living Like Vultures

I can’t pinpoint when I first started thinking about vultures, but I think it may have been when my husband informed me that a family...

Travels With A

I ran into her in the East Village. I knew her from Flatbush High, but back then she was from the over-achievers, and I was...

You Can't See Everything From The Car

“I have a surprise,” Michael announced. “Guess where we’re going for our anniversary?”

The Butterfly Effect

As problematic as it is to try to communicate the magnificence of a natural phenomenon through an allusion to a fictitious one, this is all...

It's Almost Valentine's Day

It’s almost Valentine’s Day, sales apex for pralines, season of intact and broken hearts, when, all at once, I’m seized by an extravagance of anger.

Music and Memory: Wicked Game

I don’t remember if I heard the song “Wicked Game” before I saw David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, but for a while, I connected the...

From Pazar to Table

My soon-to-be father-in-law is sitting across from me, extending an oval-shaped plastic plate that’s piled high with iceberg lettuce, arugula, dark greens I can’t yet...

The Other Paris

Every generation thinks it discovers sex and Paris. My 1970s discovery occurred with a Greek anti-hero in an intimate, inexpensive, crumbling Île Saint-Louis hotel. Paris...

For the Birds

If numbers were power, chickens would rule the animal kingdom. With over 35 billion of them roaming Earth, the population of Gallus domesticus outnumbers humans...

Passages

The night, a thicket. The sailors lean their mast Towards the flames that ring the mountain. A leopard’s glowing spots, a celestial map, A trail...

Knoxville

The second week in May I share a cabin with a wasp. Its nest hangs in the left upper corner of the door, just outside...

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...

Night Farmers

The grand old train station, Hua Lamphong, in central Bangkok, has no cafe per se. Instead there is a food court. The food court offers...

An Illusion

I stopped at the Ömeriye hamam on my walk back from Nicosia’s northern, Turkish side. The Ottomans built the bathhouse, but today it stands on...

Decolonising Travel Introduction

From the size of this issue, it’s clear that the evocative (and elastic) theme of Space resonated with many. When I first heard it, my...

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...

The Librarian’s Flame, or Alexandria

The pale, blue horizon was covered in a searing mist. The late summer humidity cast a mirage of white fog over the northerly, African city....