My Bright-Lights Misadventure with a Magician of Manhattan
“As an added bonus, she paid for everything.”
Travel
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Dropping Dimes"
A basketball player cares for his addicted sister.
Loch Ness Memoir
A trip to Scotland and an investigation of enduring belief.
“I remember reading about the deathbed confession, and how strangely sad it made me, even though I had not, at that point, believed in the monster for years. How much sadder, I wondered, would it make those who still believed in the existence of a monster in Loch Ness?”
When You’re a ‘Digital Nomad,’ the World Is Your Office
A global network of live-work spaces is springing up to serve this new breed of millennial wanderer.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Suggestible Hauntings"
The lives of professional haunters.
Fiction: "Revere"
A writer prepares for the possibility of meeting a lost lover.
You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey!
A journey to Disney World with kids and weed.
Disneyland with the Death Penalty
On the sanitized wonderland that is Singapore.
Fiction: "The Whole World is Desert"
A mother and daughter take a complicated trip to Central Asia.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Junket in the City of Lights"
A movie star's press junket notes and observations.
Meltdown
The writer travels with his father to Iceland and Greenland.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Bob and Dave"
While on a flight, a student alternates between his seatmate's conversations and his own painful memories.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Island"
A man tries to unveil a lover's potential mystery.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Oracle of Exit 24"
In the midst of devastation, a couple seeks answers from a mysterious figure.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Just Visiting"
An American wife's keen unhappiness on her European honeymoon.
An Italian Rapper, a ‘Hangman’s Noose’ and a $250m Lawsuit:
Inside the chaotic race to build Elon Musk’s hyperloop.
Everyone Is an Immigrant
On the Italian island Lampedusa— “politically Europe, but geographically Africa”—as a wave of African immigrants is due to arrive from Libya by boat, ruining the tourist season.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Bolger"
A conversation with (and memories of) an unscrupulous bar owner.
If You Knew Sushi
A stroll through Tokyo’s Tsukiji, the world’s largest seafood market, and the mecca of the global sushi trade.
The Art of Tour Guiding
What it’s like to drive tourists around the Australian outback.
Encounter With the Infinite
In search of Ramanujan in India.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Briar Switch"
A dangerous trek to visit a dying father.
They Burn Witches Here
A trip to Papua New Guinea, “an island caught between the ancient world and 2015.”
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Like Home"
A band's tour problems range from bedbugs to internal strife.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Souvenir"
A sad harmony of tourists and local English legends.
