Smithsonian magazine's picks for the best books about travel of 2025 include Adventures in the Louvre, On the Hippie Trail ...

From utopian dreams to dystopian warnings, time travel fiction reflects our hopes and fears for humanity’s future. Courtesy the publishers For decades, authors and readers have been asking questions ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In 1956, the poet Elizabeth Bishop worried about the imprudence and absurdity of going abroad. “Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?” she writes in ...

You can travel the world without ever leaving home with a good travel book. And for all my fellow literary travelers out there, travel books can make great inspiration for your upcoming destination.

The sun was finally peaking through the storm clouds when I cracked open The New Tourist on a train headed out of Amsterdam. I’d absolutely loved the city, even in pouring rain—canals around every ...

NEW YORK – Whether you’re an armchair traveler, a road tripper or a frequent flier, books about travel can inspire and inform. Here are a few out this season on a variety of travel themes. – Great ...

Travel can bring us from the far-flung corners of the planet to a tiny little perch right in our own backyard. It might inspire and enlighten us, awaken emotions inside us that we never knew existed, ...