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‘This is where you are’

A. F. Moritz reads his poem ‘Busman’s Honeymoon’

Poetry podcast:

A. F. Moritz reads his poem ‘Busman’s Honeymoon’

A tourist? A merchant? An avid assimilator?

India in the West (Oh Istanbul!)

‘Meet You at the Door’ by Lawrence Hill

Short story:

‘Meet You at the Door’ by Lawrence Hill

‘Some Other City We Could Travel To’ by John Gallaher

Poem:

‘Some Other City We Could Travel To’ by John Gallaher

‘The Odyssey, the most magnificent travelogue of all time, will concern us here…’

‘A Week at the Airport’ by Alain De Botton

Book excerpt:

‘A Week at the Airport’ by Alain De Botton

‘In vast, impoverished cities like Bombay, Cairo, Jakarta, Rio, or Lagos, the plot lines of the nineteenth century proliferate. Not ignorant mass suffering, but the ordeal of sentient individuals who are daily exposed to a world of possibilities through a sheet of glass-satellite TV, the Internet-that keeps them out.’

Not a bad place at all…

Video:

Riding Through Yerevan With ‘Miss Emma’

Video:

Rush Hour, Waterloo Station, 1970

‘Quite where Provence began was another of Ford’s variable facts. Perhaps it depended on when the train jogged him awake…’

The Not So Open Road

Old Mr Gorvalla

“Now we are all sons-a-bitches.”

Audio slideshow:

Passengers

The traveler, Pico Iyer decided one day, is part photographer and part philosopher…

Walking in L.A.

‘Shenmue’s rapt recreation of life’s humdrum interstices made an unprecedentedly rich ground for the moments of action and intrigue’