The principal experience of the art I encountered, I found, was not the art itself, but the uncertainty and complexity of my own subjective response.
Cities are palimpsests, their contemporary surfaces concealing, though not entirely effacing, their more remote past.
Calling the idea of wilderness into question makes as much sense as asking whether the United States is a democracy.
All “authentic” travel becomes a kind of secular pilgrimage.
Rick Steves teaches travel as a kind of road to civic transformation.
The cases for travel are often sillier than the cases against, and I think it’s important to question them.
Travel is a way of acquiring lifetimes; travel writing, doubly so.
Augmented Reality doesn’t just add things to our perceptual experience; it redirects our attention.
Robert Sheckley absorbed Freud and worried about modernity as the unleashing of fantasies old and new.
A trip down the California coast has an aspect of memory and return to it.
There is a familiar feeling here: existential dread, impending doom, a light dose of despair.
Could we ban cell phone photography in museums and at performances?