A nameless woman enters a hotel room. She’s been here once before. In the years since, the room hasn’t changed, but she has. Forever caught between check-in and check-out, she will go on to occupy other hotel rooms. From Avignon to Oslo, Auckland to Austin, each is as anonymous as the last but bound by the rules of her choosing.
Read MoreCarmen Suen, a Hong Kong writer who moved to the U.S. with her Black-American husband, examines Asian attitudes toward racism and what we can all learn by reading.
Read MoreSometimes I feel like Miss Havisham in a flight attendant uniform. I may inhabit the 43-year-old body of a Tucson mom—complete with unfashionable bob and part-time work-from-home business—but I’m still haunted by the 24-year-old London-based flygirl I used to be.
Read MoreMaggie Downs spent a year backpacking solo through seventeen countries―completing the bucket list her dying mother could not. We spoke about outlasting fear, seeing the world on a person level, and what to do when the thing that makes you who you are is suddenly off-limits.
Read MoreIt was exhilarating to do something just for me, so far off-script for the obedient daughter and people pleaser I had always been. New job, new country, new boyfriend—I managed to make it all happen in a whirlwind three months, so fast that I had no time to sort through the wreckage of my previous life.
Read MoreI see you, walking to bore holes, or wells. You carry aid buckets full of soap and water purifier. You are re-building your homes, or hanging up mosquito nets around your children.
Read MoreSilvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic offers a refreshing departure from stereotypical themes and a scathing critique of the colonial point-of-view that makes them so ubiquitous.
Read MoreLisa Niver, now a prolific travel writer, blogger and television commentator, writes about reinventing herself after divorce and the books that helped her succeed.
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