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Annie Ernaux. Photo by Catherine Hélie. Courtesy of Éditions Gallimard. While reading Annie Ernaux’s Simple Passion, I often caught myself mistaking it for a diary. The memoir details an illicit affair in prose that feels startlingly immediate, full of particulars that seem to surface in real time: a skirt in a Benetton shop; a list of fortune-tellers in the telephone book; the faded lettering of a plaque that reads PASSAGE CARDINET, near where the author sought a clandestine abortion years before. Yet I was continually made aware that time had passed, and this was last year’s love seen through this...

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In the journal from his legendary 1869 expedition down the Colorado River, explorer John Wesley Powell called the remote Tavaputs Plateau in Eastern Utah “one of the stupendous features of this country.” The one-armed Civil War hero marveled at the Wasatch Mountains soaring above the Uinta Basin, the canyons carved by the Green River thousands of feet below, and the Uinta Mountains to the north, where, he wrote, “among the forests are many beautiful parks.” Much of that vista remains unchanged, except that now it’s blanketed with thousands of oil and gas wells, and in the winter, a thick layer...

Even if you consider yourself an absolute master at packing, odds are—after the past two years being slow in the travel department—packing for any upcoming trips you have will involve staring at an open suitcase and thinking, Where do I even begin? After all, packing was no easy feat even when we were traveling constantly. CURRENTLY TRENDING IN / TECH BACKGROUNDS Free, Downloadable Tech Backgrounds for May 2022! our favorite time of the month PICK YOURS NOW Packing for a recent trip got me thinking that there just had to be a better way than I was going about it (read:...