On the Road: International Writing on Travel
Road Stories: International Writing on Travel
Some of the writers here document their own trips, while others invent characters and send them on the road.
Campo Santo
The dead were thought of as extremely touchy, envious, vengeful, quarrelsome, and cunning.
A Trip through Ayahuasca
It is said after the vomiting comes the visions. I wasn’t seeing anything yet.
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from “Rabbit on the Road”
The island lights look like the stars came down from the sky and queued up.
Journey toward the Island
Forty animals drowned. The people will never forget it.
On International Literature and Travel
This month, we’re engaging one of the more pressing questions facing the literary sphere.
On the “Good” in “Good Traveler”
Travel is a self-improvement project that has been sold to us as a world-improvement project.
We Usually Ask Literature to be Humanizing Only When It’s from “Over There”
Our dignified survival as a species probably depends on finding ways to listen to each other.
The Desire to Travel Responsibly Must Come before the Desire to Learn through Literature
There is a surer way for international literature to make us better tourists.
The Reader’s Openness to the Unfamiliar
When we ask whether international literature can make us better travelers, who are the supposed beneficiaries?
