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13 of Our Favorite Travel Reads From 2017
From a meditation on the Caribbean’s future after the hurricanes to an exploration of the haunted side of Bangkok, here are some of our favorite Travel articles from the past year.
Dawn After the Tempests
The novelist Edwidge Danticat reflects on the devastation from Hurricanes Irma and Maria to many Caribbean islands whose economies rely on tourism.
In Spain, Secrets and a Possible Betrayal
It was summer in Granada, and I told myself I was in love, the novelist Alexander Chee writes. That wouldn’t last.
Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom
How one woman transformed the marshy, wooded Chesapeake Bay region, first a gateway through which slave traders brought Africans, into a route to liberation.
Mourning in Paris
Paris is a good place to mourn. I would say this even if my uncle Richard hadn’t lived there, but all the more so that he had.
Finding My Florida
It’s a much-mocked place — but also many states in one. All of them can be fascinating and, yes, sometimes weird.
From Poland to Lithuania: A Writer’s Search for Her Jewish Past
From the Jewish districts of historic cities to small, out-of-the-way towns once known as shtetls, the author finds remnants of the past at every turn.
Along the Mississippi
The Great River Road, the byway that runs next to the Mississippi River, was the organizing principle of a road trip that took a family through the history of this land.
On Love, Motorcycles and the Art of Being a Passenger
One summer, the novelist Joyce Maynard and the man who would become her husband embarked on an unlikely journey through the heart of New England.
Vancouver Island, Through an Artist’s Eyes
Revered in British Columbia, little known in the U.S., the artist Emily Carr, born in Victoria in 1871, may be from another era, but amid environmental concerns, her words and images resonate.
Is Gascony the Most Delicious Corner of France?
Even a week or so spent eating and drinking your way around this rural area of southwestern France is enough to spark a lifelong love affair.
My Bangkok: City of Spirits
In a city filled with haunted sites, ghosts are woven into the fabric of daily life.
The Weird, Mystic Pull of Southwest England
The area is a place of pilgrimage for late-model would-be knights of the Round Table, as well as mystical seekers of many stripes.
Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America?
How a 21st-century Detroit navigates the dangers of regeneration is a particularly poignant question on the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit race riots.
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