The Future of Travel
The world may be shrinking, but we’ll never tire of leaving home
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Last Rites
Only Leonard Cohen could sing his own elegy
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The Handshake and the Calligraphy Brush
Searching for harmony in modern Japan—across a Ping-Pong table
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The Handshake and the Calligraphy Brush
“That seemed to be the state of modern Japan: halfway between China and North America, not sure how much to follow Marshall McLuhan and how much Confucius”
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No Escape, Not Even to Kyoto
There’s no escaping anything in life. Fly all the way to Tahiti or the Himalayas, and what you’ll find—as the Hollywood clichés often remind us—is that person who’s always longing …
Read MoreThe Promise of Beauty
Terrence Malick’s brave new worlds
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The Photographer and the Philosopher
The traveller, I decided one day, is part photographer and part philosopher: his aim, as he sets out, is to catch some aspect of his subject – a tilt of …
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Lost in La Paz
In Bolivia, where the past, present, and future collide, nothing – not even prison – is as it seems
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