Luanda, Kapuscinski, and the Geography of Daydreams

Luanda -- a city I’ll probably never see, but which for whatever reason exerts a very strong pull on me. Other places have had the same effect; I’ll know next to nothing about them, have zero practical reason for ever visiting, and yet something about them -- the idea of them -- stays lodged in …

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A Little Slice of Hippie Paradise

Like anyone preparing for a trip overseas, I’d scoured the local bookstore’s travel section for anything even remotely related to my destination. If the Travel Channel had sent one of its many bubbly and eccentric hosts to Argentina, I dropped what I was doing and turned up the volume. This mental preparation always begins months …

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