The N.Y. Times’s Matt Gross on Getting Lost

A few weeks ago, I sat on a hard, metal chair in 100-degree heat at Leopold’s Cafe in South Mumbai. An expat hangout made famous in the Gregory Roberts novel Shantaram, Leopold’s is where a runaway convict from Australia finds friendship. Scanning the room of sweating Westerners, I winked at…

This sounds like a story that should be running in the Onion. Logan Airport announced today that it will be rolling out a new security measure, a technique it says it picked up from Israeli security forces. It’s not a new type of X-ray machine or some sort of awesome Israeli sleeper hold, it’s…

For now, try to forget the bummer news that time travel—at least in the sense of moving a particle faster than the speed of light—ain’t ever happening.  Richard Branson’s space tourism company Virgin Galactic is promising a unique consolation prize, on a much more gratifying timeline:…

As print newspapers fight to stay alive, travel sections lose pages and steadily increase service journalism while operating under more scrutiny than ever. In support of our paper/e-ink colleagues, here’s the Sunday print travel news that’s fit to post about.

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Dan Morrison’s new book, The Black Nile, chronicles his journey along the Nile River from its source at Lake Victoria to its exit 3,600 miles later at the Mediterranean Sea. In this exclusive excerpt, the author describes an eventful night in the Sudanese border town of Malakal.

The power was…

A Thai environmental activist I know in Bangkok has long lamented the way that Mayo Beach in Phi Phi, near Krabi has been exploited as the setting for Danny Boyle’s movie The Beach. She was living there when Hollywood invaded sometime around 1996. Before the film was shot there were no palm…

Everyone loves to bitch about lousy flight attendants, but I find myself feeling sorry for them more often than not. I mean, really, how many people do you know who would cheerily be the whipping boy for every passenger on a delayed or canceled flight? It can’t be fun. And we all know…