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See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways.
See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways.
See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways.
Yet Theroux makes a passionate defense of his genre when asked what role travel writing can play in a globalized world where much that was exotic seems increasingly like one giant 7-11 franchise. "That's just an illusion," Theroux claims, "because the customs, obligations, pieties that govern the people...
Clad in white linen and a flowery shirt, Paul Theroux looked a picture of contentment during a recent speechmaking swing through Bangkok. Two Polynesian-style tattoos designed by the 68-year-old himself curved from an exposed wrist and sockless calve. Holding court within the quaintly colonial Authors' Wing of...