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...LATEST COVER STORY Asia's Journey Home Pico Iyer: The Journey Home
...kind of friends who affect us more than any wise man could. Eternal in spite of themselves, they give a sly new life to Cassius' famous assessment in Julius Caesar, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." --By Pico Iyer...
...Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad explores what happens when we take the romance of travel one step further and settle down. The 26 stories read like an abridged edition of the past two decades' most popular travel books, with excerpts from Paul Theroux's Sunrise with Seamonsters and Pico Iyer's The Global Soul. For avid travel readers these will be old friends; for those new to the genre, it's a great way to catch...
...knot. Eventually I moved on, leaving my boat for other affairs: a dalliance with a house in Berkeley, a fling with a high-rise in Hong Kong. But I still look back on my Parisian home with wistfulness and a hint of self-satisfaction. At any gathering of Iyer's global souls, a houseboat in Paris trumps a penthouse in Manhattan every time...
...Iyer, Sen's humanism emerges in the empathetic way she explores an array of starkly different characters. In the extensive scenes on the bus, there is an old Muslim couple, a pair of newlyweds, a mother with her handicapped son, college kids on their summer break, a Jew and two Sikhs, who together represent a kind of mini-India. Sen uses the reactions of each character to the violence unfolding around them as a mirror that reflects the clashing attitudes Indians hold toward one another. Her attention to detail is one of her great strengths, and the film skillfully captures...