RANTS

When I arrived in France to begin a two-month sojourn (a mellifluous word that sounds more romantic than it is), I realized something about travel – it was a kind of borderline epiphany. My stay had a...

The reputation of Americans traveling abroad – especially in Europe – precedes them. And, unfortunately, that reputation isn’t a great one. Too often we’re the biggest and the brashest in the room. You...

In 1948, according to the School of Life, James Baldwin “undertook that most inwardly liberating of moves. He went into exile” in France. The idea offers a lot of appeal. There is a certain romanticism...

Just leave. Before killing yourself because you’ve come to a dead-end in America, just leave. It’s not worth contemplating suicide or slowly drinking/drugging yourself to death as you struggle to achieve...