Articles Tagged with #livingabroad
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The Writing Life
Picture Me Not Posting
If distractions poison a writer’s ambitions, then surely a summer with no internet access is the antidote?
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Eurozonia
We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Bucket
A Marshall Plan for a peacetime crisis of Europe’s own making indicates just how wrong things went. Calling it a Marshall Plan in a draft documents made the...
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Eurozonia
The Doom Abides
From what I’ve parsed so far, everyone’s eager to avoid something even worse from happening; this is our default setting as human beings. Dealing with a...
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Letters From Hotel Lambosa
Postmark Tomorrow
Every flea market has a bin of found postcards for sale. Some notes, however, wait to be mailed.
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Opinions
The Pleasures of Saudade
A year in Lisbon teaches you more than how to select a decent vinho verde. An ode to the uniquely hopeful, desperate music that’s missing from the usual American fare.
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Letters From Berlin
Bohemian Eulogy
Anarchy is dying in Berlin, and Tina Turner swung the axe. Beginning a new series, our man in Germany reports from a park full of arsonists, punks, and frotteurs.
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Personal Essays
Breakfast With the Beeb
Sounds can take us home—even when that home belongs to someone else, and the sounds are of obscure gardening comedy.
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Letters From Riga
Nothing Special, Just Crisis
Latvia’s economy is in peril and its government a mess. Reporting from Riga, our writer feels more comfortable than most, knowing Latvia from a childhood in suburban Connecticut.
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Opinions
Culture Shake
Americans find certain things familiar on these shores to be challenged overseas: love for peanut butter, Republican politics, and particularly the good old American handshake. A report from abroad on the challenge of kissing Margaret Thatcher.