From Our Pages: “The River My Father Promised, a quest through fifty countries.” By Bea Chang.
“I came home and I left, again and again, each time reminded of the sadness and disappointment of my own upbringing, the terrible lack of stories.” For Bea Chang, who contributed the memoir “The River My Father Promised” to our “Maps & Legends” print issue, life is — literally — a journey. At the time she wrote...
Online Exclusive: “Red Ferry, Blue Ferry,” by Michael Fallon.
In which the author triangulates Ireland before Google, cell phones, and GPS. “I thought myself pretty clever to have come up with what seemed a foolproof method … The islanders knew that their Ireland and mine were not the same place.” All the help you get. From AranIslands.le. (This feature is also available, in slightly different format, on...
Truth Teller Spotlight: Bea Chang, Essayist.
“Traveling helps me figure out the right questions to ask. It is the writing afterward—sometimes long afterward—that feels like seeking and revealing the truth in the answers to those questions.” For Bea Chang, who contributed the memoir “The River My Father Promised” to our “Maps & Legends” issue, life is–literally–a journey. At the...
Contributor news: On the *Notable* Bea Chang and the river her father promised.
“They were river boys, he likes to say, and they grew up into mountain men. In college, they sneaked past anti-Communist guardposts by the pale gray of dawn to backpack into the mountain range that stretches down the heart of Taiwan.” We’re pleased to see that Bea Chang’s “The River My Father Promised” has...
Online Exclusive: “El Rosario Road: The spell of ordinary spectacle.” By Douglas Haynes.
“The river swells. A white goose waddles out from a farmyard to ride the rapids, then disembarks and does it again. In a head-to-toe navy slicker and tall rubber boots, an ice cream man pushes his cart through the whitecaps. His thumb rings a bell …” El Rosario Road Splay-leafed palms spike the fencerows....
