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Ab Aqua Libertas
How could I then put into words my feelings about my favorite one of them all, the Danube?
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Amsterdam
“But what to do with wild desire, which careens from bloom to bloom?” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “Amsterdam” by Andrew Bertaina.
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
The Lucid Interval
Photo by Hervé Simon
One of memory’s slyer tricks is to colour things with a sense of foreboding. When I think of that night in Siena, the details seem prescient. The ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
NEW TOURISTS OF HONG KONG
Hong Kong residents and locals discover and rediscover their city
Editor's Pick, Essays, Nature Issue
SEEING GHOSTS
On a river journey, a woman reckons that the earth remembers what our history forgets
Editor's Pick, Essays, Nature Issue
A LANDSCAPE OF WINGS
Encounters with birds structure this reflection on life and travel
Rome Suppressed
Translated by Lucy Rand.
I start to
walk…
I walk.
I always walk when I need to think. I walk the congested streets of Rome
and my heart, my extravagant little heart, ...
Past the Oasis
Khaled cranked the wheel to the left, sending the Land
Rover skidding in the powdery Saharan sand. Half-digested fish and bits of
flatbread rumbled in my stomach as nausea climbed ...
Latte for my Batte| Litro Lab| Podcast
Audrey Wick’s “Latte for my Batte”, a non fiction, narrative set in Istanbul where a cup of coffee lends a new perspective of life.
Staying Ahead of the Starvation Curve
From the Coleen River, my dog Will and I hike farther into the bowels of the wilderness. Immediately, we enter ten-foot tall riparian brush and spend thirty minutes trying to ...
Couchsurfing South America: The Shifts of Blasé
When I was traveling I made no commitments: never booked a hostel until I got there, only paid for one night in case I wanted to leave, and said thanks ...
Willing Exile
“For all its many drawbacks, America has been good to me.” A Brit contemplates life abroad.
The Last Travel Diary of a Pregnant Nomad
A committed wanderer is forced to contemplate the notion of “home.”
Digital Subscriptions, Litro #141: Myths and Legends, Travel&Lifestyle
Land of Fire and Ice
Discovering a literary paradise in Iceland.
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Couchsurfing South America: Over the Andes Mountains
In his latest Couchsurfing column, David Hargreaves braves the stark white snowfields of the Andes.
Arts & Culture, Travel&Lifestyle
Literary London: A Recommended Reading List
For your next trip to this cosmopolitan labyrinth, pack your bags (or load your e-reader) with this quintessential London reading list from Jamie Leigh.
Couchsurfing South America: A Nymphomaniac in Buenos Aires
“There’s two things you should know about me before you stay at my place. One: I sleep a lot. Two: I’m kind of a Nympho.” In the latest of his ...
Q & A: Danny Wallace on Who is Tom Ditto?
I wondered what might happen to people who don’t feel like they’ve found themselves; they don’t know who they are so they don’t know where they fit in. Was there ...
Couchsurfing South America: A Locked Door in Cusco
In the first of a new travel series, David Hargreaves begins his Couchsurfing trek across South America – only to find a locked door in Cusco, Peru.
Diary of a Laptop Hobo: Scranton, PA
You’ll see us around town. Staring intently into screens, passably dressed, tipping fairly well to counter-balance our loitering.