Sara Mansfield Taber

Here is global nomad Andre Aciman on his habit of summoning his lost past, and consequently, his lost self at the seaside: Drop me in Nice or in Anzio or in East Hampton as someone’s guest and early on Sunday morning I will look for any excuse to go out…

Here I describe the legacy of the global nomad childhood for me: What I have taken away from this itinerant childhood: a learning stance; the confusing but deep conviction that there are multiple truths and that mine is not the only one; a wish to honor others and not impose…

Edward Said on the many contradictory feelings and penchants of the global nomad: the fear of abandonment and the compulsion to abandon, the pain of departure and the compulsion to leave, the habit of packing as if one will never return to a place The underlying motifs for me have…

Alice Kaplan on the pleasure of living in and speaking another language, in this case, French.  A new language can release us—to desire different thing, to claim new body parts, to become adult… “It was not what France gave you but what it did not take away from you that…