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Title [1] |
Topic(s) |
Previously appeared [1] |
| 1 |
My Drug Tour: Searching for Ayahuasca |
Trip to Ecuador in search of a psychoactive plant |
as "Honey, the Shaman Shrunk My Head", Men's Journal |
| 2 |
Thoreau in the Wilderness |
Henry David Thoreau, author |
Introduction to The Maine Woods (Princeton University Press) |
| 3 |
Liz in Neverland |
Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson, celebrities and close friends |
Talk magazine (defunct) |
| 4 |
Greeneland |
Graham Greene, author |
New York Times and introductions to the Penguin editions of Greene's Journey Without Maps and The Comedians |
| 5 |
Hunter in the Kingdom of Fear |
Hunter S. Thompson, author and gonzo journalist |
The Guardian, newspaper |
| 6 |
Conrad at Sea |
Joseph Conrad, author |
Introduction to Typhoon and Other Tales (Folio Society) |
| 7 |
Simenon's World |
Georges Simenon, author |
Introduction to The Widow (New York Review Books Classics) |
| 8 |
Dr. Sacks, the Healer |
Oliver Sacks, neurologist, naturalist and author |
as "My Friend the Doctor", Prospect (February 20, 1999) |
| 9 |
Nurse Wolf, the Hurter |
A professional dominatrix in New York |
The New Yorker (June 7, 1998) |
| 10 |
Robin Williams: "Who’s He When He’s at Home?" |
Robin Williams, comedian and actor |
Talk magazine |
| 11 |
Tea with Muriel Spark |
Muriel Spark, Scottish author |
Talk magazine |
| 12 |
Mrs. Robinson Revisited |
Older women, younger men |
Harper's Bazaar (March, 2002) |
| 13 |
Talismans for Our Dreams |
Collecting objects in travels |
Departures (March 30, 2010) |
| 14 |
The Rock Star's Burden |
Bono, Africa, charity & harm done |
New York Times (December 15, 2005) |
| 15 |
Living with Geese |
Raising geese, anthropomorphism and E.B. White |
Smithsonian (December 2006) |
| 16 |
Trespassing in Africa |
A harrowing experience of Theroux as a young man in Africa |
Granta |
| 17 |
The Seizures in Zimbabwe |
Zimbabwe commercial farmers chased from their farms by local gangs and politicians |
Epilogue to the paperback edition of Dark Star Safari |
| 18 |
Stanley: The Ultimate African Explorer |
Review of biography of Henry Morton Stanley by Tim Jeal |
New York Times book review (September 30, 2007) |
| 19 |
Paul Bowles: Not a Tourist |
Paul Bowles |
Introduction to The Sheltering Sky (Penguin) |
| 20 |
Maugham: Up and Down in Asia |
W. Somerset Maugham |
Introduction to The Gentleman in the Parlour (Vintage Classics) |
| 21 |
English Hours: Nothing Personal |
Memories as an expatriate living in England in 1970s and ‘80s |
Granta #114 (February 10, 2011) |
| 22 |
Traveling Beyond Google |
Traveling to places despite receiving warnings to stay away |
as "Why We Travel", New York Times (April 1, 2011) |
| 23 |
Hawaii: Islands upon Islands |
Hawaii; reflections on the author's adopted home of 22 years |
as "One Man's Islands", Smithsonian magazine (May 2012) |
| 24 |
Mockingbird in Monroeville |
A visit to the Monroeville Alabama home town of Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird |
as "Return of the Mockingbird" in Smithsonian magazine (July 2015) |
| 25 |
Benton's America |
Thomas Hart Benton and his work America Today |
Smithsonian magazine (December 2014) |
| 26 |
My Life as a Reader |
Author's reading passions |
Introduction to On Reading, photographs by Steve McCurry (Phaidon) |
| 27 |
The Real Me: A Memory |
A harrowing experience of Theroux as a college student |
n/a |
| 28 |
Life and the Magazine |
Life magazine and meeting Gardner McKay |
New York Times Magazine |
| 29 |
Dear Old Dad: Memories of My Father |
The author's father |
Granta #98 (July 2, 2007) |
| 30 |
The Trouble with Autobiography |
The genre of autobiography |
Smithsonian magazine (January 2011) |
