Go Girl Holiday Gift Guide 2011 Last year, our writers recommended a host of items from the inexpensive and pragmatic to the extravagant and imaginary, and this year…
California Dreaming: 5 Books for California
Looking for a great read to accompany your trip to California? Read what Margaret has to say about her five top picks. Click on the title links to purchase a…
Best and Worst Countries for Women
Read The Daily Beast’s article on the best and worst countries for women by clicking here. What do you think of their criteria, and where do your favorite countries fall…
5 Books for Road Trips
On the Road by Jack Kerouac Probably the most famous road trip book ever written, Kerouac’s fictionalization of his cross-country wanderings is known as the book of the Beat Generation,…
5 Books for London
5 books for London Orlando by Virginia Woolf One of her lesser known but most beautiful and accessible novels, Orlando: A Biography–written for Woolf’s lover, Vita Sackville-West–is the fantastical…
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Looking for an Extreme Read?
[pullquote] Why are we so fixated with such tales, gory and clichéd as they may be? The very gruesomeness of the material is an undeniable source of fascination. Yet our…
Understanding Syria
Bruce Reidel over at The Daily Beast has the best article I’ve read yet on the growing conflict within Syria and its potential consequences for the country, the region and…
Where Were You When…?
Two weeks ago I was in Berkeley visiting a friend when I saw news coverage of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. It’s amazing, the change that takes place in…
Review: The Places In Between
Review on the Go: The Places In Between chronicles Rory Stewart’s walk across Afghanistan in the winter of 2002. Part travel memoir, part history lesson, and part rumination on all things from global politics to local hospitality, The Places In Between is engaging, well-written, and definitely worth a read.
My Favorite Airport: A Visual Ode to DTW.
A lot of people hate airports. I hate some of them, or bits of some of them. The chaos of LAX, for instance, or the merciless and unavoidable twisting bus…
My Five Go Girl Goals for 2011
If your world is anything like mine, the past few weeks have been crazy, for travelers and homebodies alike. Between flight delays (and cancellations), the crush of holiday shoppers and…
Body Scanners and Why They Worry Me, Part II
Continued from here. This is what I know: nearly a decade ago, several men hijacked passenger jets and flew planes into buildings in New York City and Washington D.C. Those…
Body Scanners and Why They Worry Me
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the new security measures involved in domestic and international air travel, about body scanners and enhanced pat-downs, and about the reasons for them,…
Go Girl Holiday Gift Guide
Looking for that perfect gift for your favorite Go Girl? Look no further! We’ve asked our team to name some of the things they absolutely can’t live without while on…
Review: A Week at the Airport
Review on the Go: Alain de Botton’s A Week at the Airport, a slim book about a week the author spent living at Heathrow airport and writing about what he…