The Literary Travelogue, Reinvented
No two industries have been more disrupted by the internet than travel and publishing. We travel more independently now, but no more wisely. We read more widely, but no more deeply, because most of what is published online is shallow or inherited from print. There are exceptions, of course, but what could have been a...
A journey across the road
In his novel Travels with My Aunt, Graham Greene tells the story of a bookmaker who has spent his entire working life at a racetrack, watching horses run endlessly along a circuit, like hamsters spinning a wheel. When he retires, the bookie plans to travel perpetually, by train and boat. He believes constant movement will...
