AFTER THOUGHTS: Atom Egoyan and Nadifa Mohamed discuss problems of translation and trauma in The Sweet Hereafter
The Travel Issue, Winter 2015 | Issue 65
fronting
features
- BEIRUT, MON AMOUR: a return to the city of lanterns. Poet and writer Fatima Bhutto goes back to her mother’s home town. Photography by Ayla Hibri
- A PUZZLING BEAUTY: the publisher of what Jacqueline Onassis called “the most beautiful magazine in the world”, Franco Maria Ricci, has built a bamboo labyrinth in the Po Valley. Tank gets lost in his life and work
- NOT SO NICE: travel writing & vengeance on the Côte d’Azur, by Tod Wodicka, with photos by Yulia Rudenko
- SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS: Yerevan’s unparalleled Parajanov Museum is home to the sumptuous, kaleidoscopic collages of film director and mythic artist Sergei Parajanov
- POINT AND SHOOT: Tiffany’s Out of Retirement collection among the other wonders of the world. Photography by Paolo Barbi
- THE ROAD TO CAPPADOCIA: lovers adrift in Turkey, a final strike of the match. Original fiction by Nadifa Mohamed, with photos by Kate Stanworth
- NETHESCURIAL: the discovery of a mysterious manuscript leads its reader on a journey into insanity. Short story by Thomas Ligotti, with illustrations by Stathis Tsemberlidis
- THIS DEMI-PARADISE: welcome to Mustique, the Caribbean’s most exclusive and glamorous private island. Mary Wellesley goes in search of its ignored history. Photography by Alice Zoo
- AN EXTRAHUMAN TOURIST: on the strange life and curious travels of Raymond Roussel, avant-garde writer and voyager of the imagination. By Thomas Roueché
- BY THE DEEP BLUE SEA: on the shores of Dalmatia. Words by Neda Neynska, photography by Estelle Hanania, styling by Nobuko Tannawa
- A RED-LETTER DAY IN MYANMAR: the Southeast Asian dictatorship’s gradual opening to the world means that its long-awaited elections have come under increased scrutiny. Words by Eleanor Loudon
- TO INFINITY AND BEYOND: enter the Dark Universe, a profound voyage through the pivotal discoveries and captivating mysteries of the cosmos
- SLIDING DOORS: looking for a face in the crowd on London’s Underground. Photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, styling by Bobby Hook
- EXPEDITION SVALBARD: a team of scientists, artists and writers investigate the impact of climate change on the Norwegian archipelago. By Tyrone Martinsson and Hans Hedberg
- PARKS AND RECREATION: Nairobi local Elsie Njeri is our guide around the streets and museums of Kenya’s capital. Photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, styling by Nobuko Tannawa
talk
- JOHN GIORNO: “Being a poet, words are often in your mind”
- PETER FRANKOPAN: “As a student I was desperate to discover a world that wasn’t centred on the West”
- JIA ZHANGKE: “Once I’ve released my films I don’t watch them any more”
- KIRILL MEDVEDEV: “It’s natural to react against the generation of our parents, who are the liberal intelligentsia”
- APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL: “Cinema is a dream. It’s how you lose yourself”
- RACHEL ROSE: “Think of viewing a hailstorm from inside a glass house as such a condition, as an atmospheric condition”
- JEREMY HARDING: “Already in the 1990s, Ceuta and Melilla were twin bathyspheres, plunged deep into this conflict”
- RUTH BEHAR: “It is one thing to have the privilege of being able to choose to be nomadic and quite another to be undocumented, stateless or homeless”
- LAWRENCE LEK & OLIVER COATES: “The Houses of Parliament is a good example: a half-gothic, half-classical attempt to find the right style for a new kind of enlightenment-inspired government”
- DIANA CAMPBELL BETANCOURT: “The Summit really is a pure gift to the people”
- FLAGG MILLER: “When I came to these tapes I was listening for Bin Laden”
- PETER GARRISON: “So we flew nearly the whole flight in total darkness”
- MIRROR, MIRROR: Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Wrapped Monument to Leonardo
