In the Wakes of Magellan and Darwin
By Suzanne Adam Our first night out to sea, standing on the deck, I feel the presence of Ferdinand Magellan. Sturdy hands on the railing…
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Shark Fishing with Hemingway in the Florida Keys: An Ode to My Daughter
By J. Rainey Page It was time to take our eldest daughter to college. She chose a school over 1,000 miles away. We were sad…
A Gatsby Inspired Stay at Oheka Castle
By Stephanie N. Ambarsumyan Entering and Leaving the 20’s. On New Year’s Eve, I anticipated the imminent spectacle of the New York City ball…
Literary Traveler’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide: Shopping during a Pandemic
By Jaclyn Tilks Holiday shopping can be stressful enough, but adding a pandemic into the mix adds a whole new level of detail to consider. …
Romanticism & The Lake District: The Contradictions of Modern Life
By Lewis Waller After the first travel guide to Britain was published in 1772, Thomas West, a Scottish Jesuit, published his own guide to the…
Murakami Latitude 00º 00’ 00”
by Ian N Arnof We all know meeting our heroes isn’t a good idea. So many things can go wrong: stress from excitement, nervously speaking…
“Oh! Who Can Ever Be Tired of Bath?”
by Alice Nord Jane Austen is often claimed to have disliked Bath, but to some extent, that is a conflation of her heroine Anne Elliot’s…
Anthony Burgess’ Malayan Trilogy
By James Weitz Anthony Burgess is probably best known for his novel Clockwork Orange, also made into a popular film. But few of his fans…
Alistair MacLeod’s Cape Breton
By Lawrence Wells With his little dog Blossom at his side, Gil MacLeod, a native of Cape Breton Island who is related to novelist Alistair…
Road Scholarship: Literary Travel in the Age of Coronavirus
By Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera Perhaps home is not a place but an irrevocable condition. -James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room. Twenty-one years ago, I moved from Massachusetts to…