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 …