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1 week ago | 
chicagotribune.com | John Warner |Paul Theroux
It seems like every family has a bit of ancestral folklore, and Joe Dunthorne’s is better than most, a tale of his great-grandfather Siegfried spiriting his family away from Nazi Germany in 1935, followed by a 1936 return during the Berlin Olympics in which they made off with the contents of the home they left behind.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
electricliterature.com | Preety Sidhu |Paul Theroux
Nearly all of Paul Theroux’s fiction is about a person—usually male, often a writer—trying to solve a problem. In several of the stories from The Vanishing Point, his new collection, that problem doesn’t have a solution. The elderly narrator of “First Love” finds himself in the awkward position of being an unwanted houseguest. Buried resentment colours every conversation with his son, just as impatience tinged with envy seeps through his daughter-in-law’s abrupt dismissals.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Paul Theroux
I told a similar tale in my novel "The Lower River," some 30 years later and in many short stories; the theme has been much on my mind. I spent 27 years, between 1963 and 1990, as an expatriate (six years in Africa, three in Singapore, 18 in Britain). I was not joyriding; I was first inspired by President John F.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
furthermag.com | Paul Theroux
FURTHER REFLECTIONHalf a century after his first visit, Paul Theroux looks back on a lifetime of adventures in Burma, now Myanmar, which featured in two of his classic travelogues — and inspired his latest novel The author — who, it’s fair to say, reinvented travel writing as an art form — on the road in the early 1980s. Photo: Courtesy Paul Theroux.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
cntraveler.com | Paul Theroux
All products featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Why is it that, after years at home, stuck in the back-and-forth of your domestic routine, or in the ups and downs of your job, you spend a week traveling somewhere pleasant or strange, and that one week blazes larger in your memory than all those years?
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Paul Theroux
Why is it that, after years at home, stuck in the back-and-forth of your domestic routine, or in the ups and downs of your job, you spend a week traveling somewhere pleasant or strange, and that one week blazes larger in your memory than all those years? This happens to me often: Travel appears to offer an enlargement of time. And it's not just me. The clerk at my post office can recall in detail her 10 days in Hawaii and the pineapple ice cream she ate on the sunny shore many years earlier.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
mensjournal.com | Paul Theroux |Alfred Lansing |Sara Wheeler |Bill Bryson
We can't go on great adventures all the time, but we can read about them (see books every man should read in his lifetime). Whether it be a Nobel Prize winner driving across America with his dog, Anthony Bourdain taking us on a tour of the world's greatest meals, exploring the mysteries of the American West with Edward Abbey, seeing the Appalachian Trail through the eyes of Bill Bryson, or experiencing frozen hell with Sir Ernest Shackleton, these 25 books will take you on a journey.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Paul Theroux |Min Jin Lee |Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh |Viet Thanh Nguyen
Burma Sahib Travel writer Paul Theroux imagines the life of British writer George Orwell, during the period he spent as a colonial policeman in Burma (now Myanmar) in the 1920s. Orwell wrote about this period in his novel, Burmese Days, and some episodes from his essays appear in the book—though Theroux goes well beyond those to create a work of fiction.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
surfer.com | William Finnegan |Kathy Lette |Paul Theroux |Kem Nunn
Surf literature isn't, always, an oxymoron. And sure there’s a load of books out there in the Amazon warehouses that depict surfing in all its forms. Autobiographies, biographies, coffee-table beauties, travel guides, and how-tos. Yet quality surfing literature is thinner on the ground. Surfing, for some inexplicable reason, doesn’t always lend itself to great works of art.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
goingglobaltv.com | Paul Theroux
If you’re planning a trip, a book with interesting destinations can inspire you to go places you’ve never been. In order to plan the perfect vacation, most people do their research. But sometimes, you may want to sit down and read about other people’s adventures. This kind of inspiration can definitely help you come up with new ideas for your next trip. So here are some books that will inspire your wanderlust.
