Naslund, Sena Jeter, “Ahab’s Wife or, The Star Gazer” (Harper Perennial 1999)

When my hands were little, and my mother was teaching me to sew, she placed her hands over mine. She …

Calvino, Italo “Invisible Cities” (Harcourt 1972)

And Marco’s answer was: “Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much …

Hoare, Philip “The Sea Inside” (Melville House 2014)

Our first fear is abandonment; our last, too. We all leave home to find home, at the risk of being …

Solnit, Rebecca “Wanderlust” (Penguin 2000)

Walking focuses not on the boundary lines of ownership that break the land into pieces but on the paths that …

Solnit, Rebecca “A Field Guide to Getting Lost” (Penguin 2005)

Worry is a way to pretend that you have to knowledge or control over what you don’t–and it surprises me, …

Rebecca Solnit “A Field Guide to Getting Lost” (Penguin 2005)

But the terra incognita spaces on maps say that knowledge also is an island surrounded by oceans of the unknown. …

Solnit, Rebecca “Wanderlust” (Penguin 2000)

We tend to consider the foundations of our culture to be natural, but every foundation had builders and an origin–which …